For philosophers, suicide raises a host of conceptual, moral, and psychological questions.
In the context of clinical care and research, Kass and colleagues have systematically delineated the conceptual, moral, and empirical problems with attempting to draw a sharp distinction between clinical research and practice, with a view to taking a more holistic approach [ 12].
Several landmark ethical theories have embraced these moral notions as central categories, while proposing strikingly different conceptual and moral analyses.
But, Mr. Thomas continued, scientific advances produce new technology, "and technology raises new questions of its own, conceptual and moral" that faith can address.
Bunge enthusiastically endorses the way in which the Enlightenment tried to disseminate conceptual and moral tools to revise and improve human thought and life in general.
Or, to put it differently, it is a mutual entanglement, in which the world is interpreted through Genesis, and Genesis is seen through the conceptual and moral framework of the world.
Those courses of study almost never include cognitive science, neuroscience, and cognitive linguistics — and so progressives interested in politics don't learn about the Neural Mind, that is, about unconscious thought, frames, conceptual metaphors, moral worldviews, the role of language, etc.
Those who deny this logical implication must drive a hard conceptual and moral line between action and omission.
By actively seeking input from a combination of primary and secondary stakeholders we were able to capture a broad range of information from the practical and highly-specific (advising how study clinics might be more effectively and appropriately implemented) to the conceptual (researchers' moral and ethical obligations to trial participants, their families and the broader community).
Lakoff's work on the conceptual systems around morals and politics (and how they show up in language) has yielded two-dozen metaphors for morality, most of them universal across cultures.
And, like all three, it can become a form of confinement, conceptual mistakes underwriting moral ones.
