| These lectures address diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
The Virtue of Personal Attacks
December 6 In general it is held that to critique a position by pointing out the moral failings of the one taking the position is fallacious, that ad hominem critiques are inappropriate in debating the merits of any argument. But is this always true? Are there instances in which personal attacks are warranted and should such attacks be accepted in bioethics? | | |
