In the new book she questions the notion of impartial aid during and after conflict enshrined in the International Red Cross from its inception.
It sits uneasily with the notion of impartial justice, though the way the French system deals with its victims - by allowing them, as 'civil parties', formal legal representation at criminal trials - might be worth examination.
At its base stands the notion of impartial concern for the benefit of all, as epitomized by the point of view of Heaven, an ideally benevolent, impartial agent who cares equally about everyone's welfare.
Another reading of Smith, which attributes a sentimentalist FA theory to him, has his standard of propriety determined by an essentially normative notion of an impartial spectator.
In order to avoid this awkward "add-on" of feeling to potentially impartial apprehension, Goldie's neo-cognitivism proposed the notion of "feeling towards" – "thinking of with feeling" so that your emotional feelings are directed towards the object of your thought.
What elevates scientists over those who spread misinformation, he explains, is credibility, and that credibility lies in part on the notion that scientists make impartial judgments based on data.
Meanwhile, the Bush family's Supreme Court appointees -- along with that mossback relic of the Reagan era, Antonin Scalia -- habitually thumb their noses at the very notion of an independent and impartial judiciary.
Antony maintains that naturalized epistemology resolves the "paradox of bias" (how one can consistently critique male bias and at the same time object to the notion of unbiased, neutral, objective, or impartial knowledge).
They dispute the notion that the Brussels institutions are always impartial arbiters of Europe's common interests, pointing out that they have their own interest in grabbing more power for themselves.
Leaving aside the fact that most Native defendants tried in the United States face Indian-free juries, and disregarding the fulsome notion that Native people can't be impartial jurists, Mr. Grassley got his facts wrong.
