Ronald Sandler

“Having mammoths isn’t going to solve any of those problems,” says Ronald Sandler, director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. 

Ronald Sandler, an environmental philosopher at Northeastern University, describes such calculations as “epistemic arrogance.” 

Commenting generally, and not on the specific thylacine case, Ronald Sandler, a professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University who focuses on environmental ethics, says he’s not against de-extinction, but emphasizes the importance of considering the most effective ways of tackling conservation challenges.

Chemically altering an organism in pursuit of a conservation goal “is not a radical departure from the kinds of things that conservationists are generally trying to do”, says Ron Sandler, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University who specialises in bioethics. And it’s much less radical than “assisted evolution”, where novel genes are inserted to […]

The report’s authors, Ronald Sandler and John Basl, both with Northeastern University’s philosophy department, and Steven Tiell of Accenture, state that a well-organized data ethics capacity can help organizations manage risks and liabilities associated with such data misuse and negligence.

The road map, set to be released Friday by consulting firm Accenture PLC and the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, says ethics committees are well-suited for convening experts and developing standards used in making decisions on complex ethical questions. The report offers guidance on how to assemble one, including the key questions that need to […]

Ultimately, says Ronald Sandler, director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, analyzing the pros and cons of de-extinction varies from species to species. When framing a cost-benefit analysis in terms of conservation, he tells the Monitor in a phone interview, “it’s almost never going to be the case that the benefits favor engaging in […]