{"id":4543,"date":"2016-05-25T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T01:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/25\/mass-shooters-and-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:50:10","slug":"mass-shooters-and-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mass-shooters-and-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Shooters and Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a presentation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXFBXhgzHJc\"><strong>TEDxGreenville<\/strong><\/a>, Furman philosophy professor Carmela Epright argues that most mass shooters are not mentally ill.\u00a0 In addition to teaching at Furman, Dr. Epright is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, where she teaches medical ethics to physicians, fellows, residents and medical students. She has been a member of the Furman faculty since 1999, and received the university\u2019s Alester G. Furman, Jr. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a presentation for TEDxGreenville, Furman philosophy professor Carmela Epright argues that most mass shooters are not mentally ill.\u00a0 In addition to teaching at Furman, Dr. Epright is a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}