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Rivka Weinberg
When the Paths Diverge聽
In this series of brief conversations, eight Scripps faculty members and students discuss the defining moments in their paths.
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Rivka Weinberg to Discuss COVID-19, Public Health Leadership, and Authoritarian Politics at Harvard University
On October 6, Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg will take part in a panel on US public health leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.
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In the Media: Washington Post Op-Ed on Truth and Impeachment Cites Rivka Weinberg
In her latest piece on impeachment for the Washington Post, opinion writer Jennifer Rubin cited Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg鈥檚 op-ed in the New York Times. Rubin placed Weinberg鈥檚 exploration of moral crimes in the context of her own analysis of Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff鈥檚 arguments in favor of impeachment.
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In the Media: Rivka Weinberg Pens Op-Ed on Moral Crimes for the New York Times
Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg addresses moral crimes, upstander vs. bystander realities, and the lessons of the Holocaust in an op-ed for the New York Times.
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In the Media: Professor Edwalds-Gilbert and Professor Weinberg Discuss Genetic Modification in Humans
Assistant Professor of Biology Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert and Professor of Philosophy Rivka Weinberg were聽quoted extensively in an article by Live Science about genetic engineering.聽According to Edwalds-Gilbert, the gene-modifying technology, CRISPR, offers avenues for finding cures for cancer and for locating and modifying the DNA that may lead to future disease in an individual.
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Rivka Weinberg: “Giving Babies to the Needy: A Critique of Altruistic Surrogacy”
Commercial surrogacy has long been criticized because it seems degrading to treat a person as an object of commercial contracts. It seems to contradict a widely accepted view regarding the proper treatment of persons as ends in themselves, and certainly beyond price. Altruistic surrogacy, on the other hand, has been deemed free of these sorts of problems presented by its commercial alternative. I will question this assessment: if persons are not the kinds of things that we should sell, aren’t they also not the kinds of things that we should give away? The answer to this question, which has received little philosophical attention, may have implications for other kinds of child welfare and custody issues as well.
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