Abraham Graber
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Graber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Graber |
| SIGNATURE | GRABER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8355-1638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Compulsory vaccination protects autonomy
In a recent article in this journal, Kowalik argues that compulsory vaccination unjustifiably infringes on the autonomy of vaccine refusers. While accepting Kowalik’s central premises, we argue that, when appropriately expanded in scope, autonomy considerations do not undermine the justifiability of compulsory vaccination. Vulnerable individuals—including the very old, the very young and those with compromised immune systems—face an omnipresent r…
A deductive variation on the no miracles argument
On the Difficulty of the Evolutionary Debunking of Scientific Realism
Justifying risk-related standards of capacity via autonomy alone
The debate over risk-related standards of decisional capacity remains one of the most important and unresolved challenges to our understanding of the demands of informed consent. On one hand, risk-related standards benefit from significant intuitive support. On the other hand, risk-related standards appear to be committed to asymmetrical capacity—a conceptual incoherence. This latter objection can be avoided by holding that risk-related standards…
Creating truths by winning arguments
Black, white or green
Personal identity is critical to provider--patient interactions. Patients and doctors tend to self-select, ideally forming therapeutic units that maximise the patients' benefit. Recently, however, 'reality' has changed. The internet and virtual worlds such as Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com/) allow models of identity and provider--patient interactions that go beyond the limits of mainstream personal identity. In this paper some of the ethi…
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Black, white or green
Personal identity is critical to provider--patient interactions. Patients and doctors tend to self-select, ideally forming therapeutic units that maximise the patients' benefit. Recently, however, 'reality' has changed. The internet and virtual worlds such as Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com/) allow models of identity and provider--patient interactions that go beyond the limits of mainstream personal identity. In this paper some of the ethi…
Creating truths by winning arguments
Justifying risk-related standards of capacity via autonomy alone
The debate over risk-related standards of decisional capacity remains one of the most important and unresolved challenges to our understanding of the demands of informed consent. On one hand, risk-related standards benefit from significant intuitive support. On the other hand, risk-related standards appear to be committed to asymmetrical capacity—a conceptual incoherence. This latter objection can be avoided by holding that risk-related standards…
On the Difficulty of the Evolutionary Debunking of Scientific Realism
A deductive variation on the no miracles argument
Compulsory vaccination protects autonomy
In a recent article in this journal, Kowalik argues that compulsory vaccination unjustifiably infringes on the autonomy of vaccine refusers. While accepting Kowalik’s central premises, we argue that, when appropriately expanded in scope, autonomy considerations do not undermine the justifiability of compulsory vaccination. Vulnerable individuals—including the very old, the very young and those with compromised immune systems—face an omnipresent r…
Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Argumentative (2 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)