Jeffrey S Helmreich
Biographic Data
| ID | 4392003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey S Helmreich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey S |
| FAMILY NAME | Helmreich |
| SIGNATURE | HELMREICH J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9237-8796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Guilt Without Fault
Many suffer intense guilt feelings when they harm others, even when they did so blamelessly and they know it. For these faultless injurers, therapy and other treatments face a distinct challenge: the subjects experience their guilt feelings as fitting, something they should not even try to overcome, despite being fully aware that they are above criticism. Some theorists have sought to explain this resistance to treatment or consolation—what I cal…
Legal Rights and Joint Commitment
Accepting Forgiveness
The Bounds of Morality: Gilbert on Promissory Obligation
Margaret Gilbert’s ‘Three Dogmas about Promising’ is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the literature, not only for its account of promissory obligation based on joint commitment, but for its equally important focus on two properties of such obligation, which her account uniquely and elegantly captures: first, that the duty to keep a promise is necessary—the obligation stands regardless of the content or morality of the promise—and, second, tha…
The Apologetic Stance
The Apologetic Stance
The Bounds of Morality: Gilbert on Promissory Obligation
Margaret Gilbert’s ‘Three Dogmas about Promising’ is a paradigm-shifting contribution to the literature, not only for its account of promissory obligation based on joint commitment, but for its equally important focus on two properties of such obligation, which her account uniquely and elegantly captures: first, that the duty to keep a promise is necessary—the obligation stands regardless of the content or morality of the promise—and, second, tha…
Accepting Forgiveness
Legal Rights and Joint Commitment
Guilt Without Fault
Many suffer intense guilt feelings when they harm others, even when they did so blamelessly and they know it. For these faultless injurers, therapy and other treatments face a distinct challenge: the subjects experience their guilt feelings as fitting, something they should not even try to overcome, despite being fully aware that they are above criticism. Some theorists have sought to explain this resistance to treatment or consolation—what I cal…
Free Will and Agency (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Duty (2 works) · Harm (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Morality (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)