Elizabeth Wolgast
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Wolgast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolgast |
| SIGNATURE | WOLGAST E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethics of an Artificial Person
The Virtue of a Representative
The Grammar of Justice
A Reply to Carl Wellman
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Wrong Rights
An atomistic model of society leads us to address injustices in terms of individual rights, but rights are curious possessions and don't always give the protection that's needed. Examples are patient's rights, children's rights and a fetus's right to life, all of which go wrong because they assume that the subjects are independent and autonomous. This assumption often fails. Rights work where people are in a position to press them; for others the…
Whether Certainty Is a Form of Life
There was something fishy, Wittgenstein thought, about a certainty which is at once empirical and immune to doubt. Yet that is just what Moore's truisms seemed to be: though certain, they seem to have no ground at all. Could that signify that they did not need one? What one could say is they were beyond the reach of any practical doubt. In On Certainty, Wittgenstein wrestled with the question how there can be such certainties, a task which a Kant…
Equality and the Rights of Women
Paradoxes of Knowledge
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Paradoxes of Knowledge. By Elizabeth Hankins Wolgast. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1977. Pp. 214.) Alan Holland Alan Holland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 115, April 1979, Pages 175–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219493 Published: 01 April 1979
Paradoxes of Knowledge
Knowing and What it Implies
A Question about Colors
The Experience in Perceptien
THERE is a certain thesis about the nature of perception which can be found in nearly every recent work on that subject.1 Its acceptance does not appear to rest upon a particular argument or group of them; instead the mind, once acquainted with this view, seems reluctant to question it and brings to it various unrelated proofs. In this paper I want to present some considerations which have logical bearing on that view, without concern for the spe…
Perceiving and Impressions
Wrong Rights
An atomistic model of society leads us to address injustices in terms of individual rights, but rights are curious possessions and don't always give the protection that's needed. Examples are patient's rights, children's rights and a fetus's right to life, all of which go wrong because they assume that the subjects are independent and autonomous. This assumption often fails. Rights work where people are in a position to press them; for others the…
Whether Certainty Is a Form of Life
There was something fishy, Wittgenstein thought, about a certainty which is at once empirical and immune to doubt. Yet that is just what Moore's truisms seemed to be: though certain, they seem to have no ground at all. Could that signify that they did not need one? What one could say is they were beyond the reach of any practical doubt. In On Certainty, Wittgenstein wrestled with the question how there can be such certainties, a task which a Kant…
Perceiving and Impressions
The Experience in Perceptien
THERE is a certain thesis about the nature of perception which can be found in nearly every recent work on that subject.1 Its acceptance does not appear to rest upon a particular argument or group of them; instead the mind, once acquainted with this view, seems reluctant to question it and brings to it various unrelated proofs. In this paper I want to present some considerations which have logical bearing on that view, without concern for the spe…
A Question about Colors
Knowing and What it Implies
Paradoxes of Knowledge
Paradoxes of Knowledge
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Paradoxes of Knowledge. By Elizabeth Hankins Wolgast. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1977. Pp. 214.) Alan Holland Alan Holland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 115, April 1979, Pages 175–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219493 Published: 01 April 1979
Equality and the Rights of Women
Wrong Rights
An atomistic model of society leads us to address injustices in terms of individual rights, but rights are curious possessions and don't always give the protection that's needed. Examples are patient's rights, children's rights and a fetus's right to life, all of which go wrong because they assume that the subjects are independent and autonomous. This assumption often fails. Rights work where people are in a position to press them; for others the…
Whether Certainty Is a Form of Life
There was something fishy, Wittgenstein thought, about a certainty which is at once empirical and immune to doubt. Yet that is just what Moore's truisms seemed to be: though certain, they seem to have no ground at all. Could that signify that they did not need one? What one could say is they were beyond the reach of any practical doubt. In On Certainty, Wittgenstein wrestled with the question how there can be such certainties, a task which a Kant…
A Reply to Carl Wellman
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Grammar of Justice
The Virtue of a Representative
Ethics of an Artificial Person
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