Eric Gilbertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 7102078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Gilbertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbertson |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERTSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0165-9072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Prudential Rationality of Risking Traumatic Brain Injury in Dangerous Sport: A Parfitian Defense
It is an open question whether participation in dangerous sports is prudentially rational given the high risk of traumatic brain injury they involve. This paper explores the merits of one attempt to rationalize participation in dangerous sport, which is based on Derek Parfit’s idea that it is rational for you to care less about the well-being of your future selves the more distant they are, because time diminishes the degree of their psychologica…
Indifference, Indeterminacy, and the Uncertainty Argument for Saving Identified Lives
In some cases where we are faced with a decision of whether to prioritize identified lives over statistical lives, we have no basis for assigning specific probabilities to possible outcomes. Is there any reason to prioritize either statistical or identified lives in such cases? The ‘uncertainty argument’ purports to show that, provided we embrace ex ante contractualism, we should prioritize saving identified lives in such cases. The argument face…
Risky Transplants and Partial Cures: Against the Objectivist View of Moral Obligation
Understanding by Testimony: A Reply to Malfatti
Federica Malfatti criticizes recent arguments against the possibility of understanding transmission. While she offers no positive argument for the claim that understanding can be transmitted, she does defend a liberal conception of transmission that allows for the possibility of understanding transmission. In this article, I have three aims. First, I will show that there is a stronger version of one of the arguments against understanding transmis…
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Understanding by Testimony: A Reply to Malfatti
Federica Malfatti criticizes recent arguments against the possibility of understanding transmission. While she offers no positive argument for the claim that understanding can be transmitted, she does defend a liberal conception of transmission that allows for the possibility of understanding transmission. In this article, I have three aims. First, I will show that there is a stronger version of one of the arguments against understanding transmis…
Risky Transplants and Partial Cures: Against the Objectivist View of Moral Obligation
Indifference, Indeterminacy, and the Uncertainty Argument for Saving Identified Lives
In some cases where we are faced with a decision of whether to prioritize identified lives over statistical lives, we have no basis for assigning specific probabilities to possible outcomes. Is there any reason to prioritize either statistical or identified lives in such cases? The ‘uncertainty argument’ purports to show that, provided we embrace ex ante contractualism, we should prioritize saving identified lives in such cases. The argument face…
The Prudential Rationality of Risking Traumatic Brain Injury in Dangerous Sport: A Parfitian Defense
It is an open question whether participation in dangerous sports is prudentially rational given the high risk of traumatic brain injury they involve. This paper explores the merits of one attempt to rationalize participation in dangerous sport, which is based on Derek Parfit’s idea that it is rational for you to care less about the well-being of your future selves the more distant they are, because time diminishes the degree of their psychologica…
Epistemology (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Contractualism (1 works)