PAUL VIMINITZ
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | PAUL VIMINITZ |
| GIVEN NAMES | PAUL |
| FAMILY NAME | VIMINITZ |
| SIGNATURE | VIMINITZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Getting the Baseline Right—or—Why I’m Right and Everyone Else is Wrong, in each of the Two Senses of ‘Why’
My fellow contractarians and I are of a mind that it would be irrational to comply with a distribution of the cooperative dividend that worsens one’s condition. But worse than what? According to David Gauthier et al. , it’s non-interaction, i.e., what would be the case were the negotiators never to have met. I argue that it’s what would be the case in the absence of their coming to an agreement. As it turns out, this distinction can be, and often…
A Proof that Libertarianism is Either False or Banal
No Place to Hide
In Morals by Agreement , David Gauthier convinced many of us—including Peter Danielson, author of Artificial Morality , the latest successor to MA —that morality can best be understood as a set of intramental, strategic responses to patterns of otherwise dilemmatic, game-theory-reducible interactivity. More particularly, Gauthier and Danielson are of a mind that: (a) characteristic of our interactive circumstances are the Prisoner's Dilemma and i…
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No Place to Hide
In Morals by Agreement , David Gauthier convinced many of us—including Peter Danielson, author of Artificial Morality , the latest successor to MA —that morality can best be understood as a set of intramental, strategic responses to patterns of otherwise dilemmatic, game-theory-reducible interactivity. More particularly, Gauthier and Danielson are of a mind that: (a) characteristic of our interactive circumstances are the Prisoner's Dilemma and i…
A Proof that Libertarianism is Either False or Banal
Getting the Baseline Right—or—Why I’m Right and Everyone Else is Wrong, in each of the Two Senses of ‘Why’
My fellow contractarians and I are of a mind that it would be irrational to comply with a distribution of the cooperative dividend that worsens one’s condition. But worse than what? According to David Gauthier et al. , it’s non-interaction, i.e., what would be the case were the negotiators never to have met. I argue that it’s what would be the case in the absence of their coming to an agreement. As it turns out, this distinction can be, and often…
Epistemology (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Baseline (sea) (1 work) · Dilemma (1 work) · Dividend (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Environmental Science (1 work)