Brenda Almond
| Brenda Almond | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brenda Almond 19 September 1937 Liverpool, England |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University College London |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Notable work | Education and the Individual (1981), Moral Concerns (1987), The Philosophical Quest (1990), Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale (1998) |
| 🏅 Awards | Honorary D. Phil (1998), Utrecht University; ]] |
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Brenda Margaret Almond (née Cohen; 19 September 1937) is a British philosopher. Professor Emeritus at Hull University, she is known for her work on philosophy of education and applied ethics and served on the UK . She wrote her first book, Education and the Individual (1978), when she was in her thirties, and went on to write Moral Concerns (1987), The Philosophical Quest (1990) and Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale (1998) andThe Fragmenting Family(2006, 2008) amongst others.
In her writing, Almond blends the ideas of classical liberalism with the main ethical theories as the basis for an exploration of key issues and recent developments in applied ethics. She eschews utilitarian approaches in favour of a rights and virtue ethics alternative.
She co-founded the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and the Society for Applied Philosophy [1] [2] and initiated and organized many conferences on themes in applied ethics.
She was awarded Belle Van Zuylen chair of Philosophy by Utrrecht in 2003.
She is a Member of Societas Ethica (European Society for Ethical Research) and served on its Praesidium under Dutch, Danish and Swiss Presidents. [3]
As well as being a philosophy professor, Almond has sought to present her particular view of individual rights to a wider public including addressing the Edinburgh festival on the ethics of stem cell research in June 2007[4] and in opinion pieces for the Daily Mail such as "Who'll defend the family?" (22 December 2008) [5]
As a member of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority usually abbreviated to 'HFEA', she tried to argue for what she called "Kantian ethics" and against utilitarianism. The paper paper entitled Kantian Voices in the Family Values Debate in the June 2012 volume of Ethics and Social Welfare 6(2):143-156 DOI:10.1080/17496535.2012.682502 noted:
“While the philosophical position of many commentators in this area is rooted in a broadly utilitarian social philosophy, there is a case for an alternative—i.e. non-utilitarian—philosophical point of view. The essential requirement for such an alternative approach is that it accords a place to certain moral absolutes: promises, principles, obligations, and the rights accruing to others as a result of those obligations.“ [6]
Also as a member of both the HFEA and Uk's Human Genetics Commission, she argued regularly for maintenance of the “welfare of the child provision” when legislation was crafted to reflect the changing technologies of birth [7] and raised ethical issues surrounding the use of human embryos. [8]
Ailsa Stevens, Science Information Officer of the Progress Educational Trust wrote in an article that appeared in BioNews, entitled "Half-Truths?: The science, politics and morality of hybrid embryos" (27 May 2008) that Almond, "felt that anxieties over hybrid embryo research had been fuelled by confusion over the definition of an embryo" [9]
In an article about a "mix-up" involving a gay couple who had two children from with different racial backgrounds after an alleged mix-up at an IVF clinic in which sperm from the wrong donor was used, the Sunday Times Health editor, Sarah-Kate Templeton identified Almond as someone who understood and sympathised with the anxieties of the couple. [10]
"A whiff of conservative nostalgia lingers around Brenda Almond" wrote the UK academic magazine, The Times Higher Education in 2006, describing her method as "enlightening yo-yos between two millennia's worth of philosophy and tomorrow's society".
Awards and honors[edit]
In 1999 she was named an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[12]
She was awarded an Honorary doctorate by the University of Utrecht in Holland.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK248695/
- ↑ https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/brenda-almond
- ↑ https://www.academia-net.org/profil/professor-emerita-brenda-almond/1134346
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/edinbugh-books-festival-small-in-area-but-wide-in-range-36pj359qct7
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1094362/BRENDA-ALMOND-Wholl-defend-family-liberal-establishments-onslaught.html
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272556322_Kantian_Voices_in_the_Family_Values_Debate
- ↑ Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law: Fifth Report, Volume 1, Parliament. House of Commons. Science and Technology Committee page 50 https://books.google.fr/books?id=-JmWibamvzgC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=HFEA+%22Brenda+Almond%22&source=bl&ots=rXyPuOjH9x&sig=ACfU3U1sYzmeGoYHLyXqM2Q3Sj82vrLyRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwrt640oP0AhUqDGMBHfABCl0Q6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=HFEA%20%22Brenda%20Almond%22&f=false
- ↑ For example, the paper in the Philosophy and Medicine book series (PHME, volume 102) The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine pp 77-92, "Using and Misusing Embryos: The Ethical Debates" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-8967-1_6
- ↑ https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_91620
- ↑ Babies in race mix up by IVF clinic", Sunday April 29 2012 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/babies-in-race-mix-up-by-ivf-clinic-bhdfsk3hgqc
- ↑ url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/cn/features/the-frail-cord-that-binds/206526.article | work=Times Higher Education|date= 16 February 2006}}
- ↑ "Oeaw Members Detail". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
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