Heather J Gert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5911860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather J Gert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gert |
| SIGNATURE | GERT H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5319-4238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hampton on the Expressive Power of Punishment
Retributivists often claim that the intuition that wrongdoing deserves punishment is moral bedrock; it needs no further justification. Critics of retributivism deny this intuition. They find morally repugnant the idea of punishing wrongdoers without a reason to believe that someone will benefit. Punishment involves the intentional infliction of suffering. One must surely have a compelling reason to do such a thing. But a simple appeal to what the…
Avoiding Surprises
The standard models for what doctors must tell their patients are based on the idea of informed consent: physicians must provide the information that patients need to make treatment decisions. In fact, though, they usually provide considerably more information than this model requires. And rightly so: patients should receive enough information that they will not be surprised by whatever happens--unless the physician is also surprised
The Standard Meter by Any Name is Still a Meter Long
In §50 of Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein wrote the sentence, “There is one thing of which one can say neither that it is one metre long, nor that it is not one metre long, and that is the standard metre in Paris.” Although some interpreters have claimed that Wittgenstein's statement is mistaken, while others have proposed various explanations showing that this must be correct, none have questioned the fact that he intended to assert th…
The Contiguity of Wittgenstein's Thought
The Death Penalty and Victims' Rights
Coming to Our Senses
Family resemblances and criteria
Family resemblances and criteria
Coming to Our Senses
The Death Penalty and Victims' Rights
The Contiguity of Wittgenstein's Thought
Avoiding Surprises
The standard models for what doctors must tell their patients are based on the idea of informed consent: physicians must provide the information that patients need to make treatment decisions. In fact, though, they usually provide considerably more information than this model requires. And rightly so: patients should receive enough information that they will not be surprised by whatever happens--unless the physician is also surprised
The Standard Meter by Any Name is Still a Meter Long
In §50 of Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein wrote the sentence, “There is one thing of which one can say neither that it is one metre long, nor that it is not one metre long, and that is the standard metre in Paris.” Although some interpreters have claimed that Wittgenstein's statement is mistaken, while others have proposed various explanations showing that this must be correct, none have questioned the fact that he intended to assert th…
Hampton on the Expressive Power of Punishment
Retributivists often claim that the intuition that wrongdoing deserves punishment is moral bedrock; it needs no further justification. Critics of retributivism deny this intuition. They find morally repugnant the idea of punishing wrongdoers without a reason to believe that someone will benefit. Punishment involves the intentional infliction of suffering. One must surely have a compelling reason to do such a thing. But a simple appeal to what the…
Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (3 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 work)