Bernard Gert
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 748562 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bernard Gert |
| NOMBRES | Bernard |
| APELLIDO | Gert |
| FIRMA | GERT B |
| AFILIACIONES | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Neuroscience and Morality
In 2009 I participated in a symposium, “Toward a Common Morality,” held at the United Nations Building in New York, that reflected the growing interest among scientists and philosophers in showing that science—particularly neuroscience—provides a foundation, not only for understanding morality, but also for improving it. In this essay I shall examine three books that are part of this trend: Experiments in Ethics, by Kwame Anthony Appiah; The Mora…
Common Morality
The first part of this book provides a detailed description of the moral system that is commonly used, although usually only implicitly, by people when they are making thoughtful moral decisions and judgments. This system includes moral rules that prohibit doing the kinds of actions that need justification so as not to be considered immoral; moral ideals that encourage doing the kinds of actions that, if they do not involve violations of moral ru…
Hobbes on language, metaphysics, and epistemology
Replies to Three Critics
Replies
Gert on Rationality, Intrinsic Value, and the Overridingness of Morality
Justified Morality
Against Internalism about Reasons-Gert's Rational Options
Two Conceptions of Reasons for Action
Précis of Morality
Replies
Gert on the Limits of Morality's Requirements
Misreading of Bioethics, Root and Branch
Bioethics, Root and Branch
perhaps capstone of this effort. The book contains thoughtful discussions of a wide range of bioethical issues. Rather than attempt to do all these justice, however, I will explore in somewhat greater detail overarching aim, which is to show that bioethics has a systematic and unified basis in the common morality-that set of moral rules to which all rational persons adhere. The authors aim to counteract a tendency, which they perceive and deplore…
Refusals Involving Requests
Madam: In highlighting the difference between patient refusals and patient requests, Gert, Bernat, and Mogielnicki (HCRJuly-August 1994) have contributed to the ever-pressing task of clarifying those vague and ambiguous terms and concepts (such as choice) into which our moral rhetoric frequently retreats. In delineating these concepts, they help us to clarify the moral obligations of physicians for those situations in which hon
Universal Values and Professional Codes of Ethics
Distinguishing between Patients' Refusals and Requests
To speak of patients' choices is to obscure the distinction between request and refusal of treatment. The distinction is particularly crucial for questions of killing or letting die
Transplants and Trolleys
Thomson usually does not take controversial positions on substantive moral matters and indeed my major problems are not with her substantive moral positions. She accepts, as I do and as I hope and expect that all serious philosophers do, that killing, causing pain, deceiving, cheating, etc., are immoral unless justified. (She actually uses the phrase things being equal, but she never provides an comprehensive account of the other things which mus…
A Critique of Principlism
The authors use the term "principlism" to refer to the practice of using "principles" to replace both moral theory and particular moral rules and ideals in dealing with the moral problems that arise in medical practice. The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically. The "principles" are in fact not guides to action, but rather they are merely names for a c…
Beyond the Living Will
Various forms of Advance Directives (Living Wills; Durable Powers of Attorney) are available that allow individuals to leave instructions about the conditions under which they would and would not want to be allowed to die. These Directives are often worded too vaguely to be helpful. A series of specific questions is described giving more precision to Advance Directives. All competent adults should consider and answer these questions; attending to…
Irrationality and the DSM-III-R Definition of Mental Disorder
I provide an account of irrationality that takes the concept of an irrational action as more basic than that of an irrational belief. While explaining the various elements of the OSM-III-R definition of mental disorders, I show that even though ( 1) not all mental disorders involve irrational beliefs or delusions, (2) not all irrational actions are due to mental disorders, and (3) not all mental disorders lead to irrational actions, there is a cl…
Rationality, Human Nature, and Lists
Psychological terms and criteria
International Relations and Politics
The Law of Nature as the Moral Law
Although Hobbes talks about the laws of nature as prescribing the virtues, it is easier to think of them as proscribing the vices. The nine vices that are proscribed by the laws of nature are injustice, ingratitude, greed or inhumanity, vindictiveness (Hobbes does not name the vice corresponding to mercy, this is my attempt to provide one.), cruelty, incivility or contumely, pride, arrogance, and unfairness (I take this to be the vice correspondi…
Offense to Others
Offense to Others is the second volume of Joel Feinberg's magisterial work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, a four-volume work that addresses the question: what kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens? In volume I, Harm to Others (also available in paperback), the author illuminated the moral implications of the 'harm principle' and demonstrated how it must be interpreted if i…
Hobbes and Psychological Egoism
Wittgenstein's private language arguments
Gert on the Limits of Morality's Requirements
Rationality, Human Nature, and Lists
Psychological terms and criteria
Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind
Personal Identity and the Body
I see someone who looks vaguely familiar. I wonder if he could be the same person I had a fight with on my birthday ten years ago. I hear that some scientist has received the Nobel prize in chemistry for some work very similar to that which interested the brightest boy in my chemistry class twenty years ago. I wonder if that scientist and the brightest boy might be the same person. What facts, if they could be discovered, would be decisive in ans…
Can a Brain Have a Pain
Hobbes, Mechanism, and Egoism
Hobbes, Mechanism, and Egoism
The Divine Politics of Thomas Hobbes
Can a Brain Have a Pain
Hobbes and Psychological Egoism
Personal Identity and the Body
I see someone who looks vaguely familiar. I wonder if he could be the same person I had a fight with on my birthday ten years ago. I hear that some scientist has received the Nobel prize in chemistry for some work very similar to that which interested the brightest boy in my chemistry class twenty years ago. I wonder if that scientist and the brightest boy might be the same person. What facts, if they could be discovered, would be decisive in ans…
Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind
Malady
Paternalistic Behavior
What It Means to Be Dead
Robert M. Veatch, James L. Bernat, Charles M. Culver, Bernard Gert, James LeRoy Smith, Alexander M. Capron, Joanne Lynn, What It Means to Be Dead, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 12, No. 6 (Dec., 1982), pp. 45-46
Expanding Psychiatric Ethics
This is a review of three recent books which attempt to integrate\nphilosophical and ethical perspectives with contemporary thinking about\npsychiatry, medicine, and institutions of social control
Defining Death
Defining Death in Theory and Practice
Malady Causes Confusion
Philosophy in Medicine
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophy in Medicine. By Charles M. Culver and Bernard Gert. (Oxford: OUP, 1982. Pp. 201. Price £15.50) John Harris John Harris University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 132, July 1983, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219231 Published: 01 July 1983
Books in Review
Wittgenstein's private language arguments
Offense to Others
Offense to Others is the second volume of Joel Feinberg's magisterial work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, a four-volume work that addresses the question: what kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens? In volume I, Harm to Others (also available in paperback), the author illuminated the moral implications of the 'harm principle' and demonstrated how it must be interpreted if i…
The Law of Nature as the Moral Law
Although Hobbes talks about the laws of nature as prescribing the virtues, it is easier to think of them as proscribing the vices. The nine vices that are proscribed by the laws of nature are injustice, ingratitude, greed or inhumanity, vindictiveness (Hobbes does not name the vice corresponding to mercy, this is my attempt to provide one.), cruelty, incivility or contumely, pride, arrogance, and unfairness (I take this to be the vice correspondi…
Books in Review
Psychological terms and criteria
International Relations and Politics
A Critique of Principlism
The authors use the term "principlism" to refer to the practice of using "principles" to replace both moral theory and particular moral rules and ideals in dealing with the moral problems that arise in medical practice. The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically. The "principles" are in fact not guides to action, but rather they are merely names for a c…
Beyond the Living Will
Various forms of Advance Directives (Living Wills; Durable Powers of Attorney) are available that allow individuals to leave instructions about the conditions under which they would and would not want to be allowed to die. These Directives are often worded too vaguely to be helpful. A series of specific questions is described giving more precision to Advance Directives. All competent adults should consider and answer these questions; attending to…
Irrationality and the DSM-III-R Definition of Mental Disorder
I provide an account of irrationality that takes the concept of an irrational action as more basic than that of an irrational belief. While explaining the various elements of the OSM-III-R definition of mental disorders, I show that even though ( 1) not all mental disorders involve irrational beliefs or delusions, (2) not all irrational actions are due to mental disorders, and (3) not all mental disorders lead to irrational actions, there is a cl…
Rationality, Human Nature, and Lists
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