Vishnu Sridharan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 658121 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vishnu Sridharan |
| PRENOMES | Vishnu |
| SOBRENOME | Sridharan |
| ASSINATURA | SRIDHARAN V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8857-2630 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Epistemic Insignificance of Moral Encroachment
While moral encroachment—the view that the moral features of an agent's belief can impact its epistemic status—has received a significant amount of attention, core problems with the view remain unaddressed. In this paper, I aim to accomplish three tasks: first, I argue that if moral encroachment simply applies to cases in which agents engage in statistical reasoning, then the thesis is epistemically redundant. Second, I critically examine the pos…
On the right to be practically sure
In our deliberations about what to do, ought we take for granted the propositions that we know? According to one prominent view, which I'll call the Fallibilist View, it is rational to be very confident in such propositions when deliberating about what to do, but almost never maximally confident in them. The primary appeal of the Fallibilist View is that it appears to address serious shortcomings of the natural alternative, which I'll call the Ce…
Causation, Statistical Evidence, and Toxic Torts
In this paper, I present a puzzle about how courts react to purely statistical evidence and my own tentative approach to solving it. The basic puzzle is that while there are a number of contexts in which statistical evidence is rejected as a foundation for liability, there are others such as toxic torts in which such evidence is thought to be sufficient. While a number of attempts have been made to explain why statistical evidence is unacceptable…
The Composition of Risk
The Moral Evaluation of Repeated Risks
In this article, I argue that there is a tension between our moral evaluation of risky actions and our moral evaluation of sequences of risky actions. In particular, I argue that both of the following may be true: (1) each particular risky action constituting the sequence is permissible, but (2) the sequence of risky actions is one that the agent ought not to perform. I show how these claims are compatible by distinguishing between the moral eval…
The Wrong Understanding of Praise
Praise, objective rightness and extended action
The Case against Unanimous Jury Requirements
Here, there, or delaware? How corporate threats distort democracy
Concern for corporate influence on democratic decisions has mostly focused on campaign funding and access to legislators. While these are certainly worrisome, corporations have another tool to influence decisions, which they are increasingly using. They can threaten to move their operations or cancel expansion plans in a municipality unless its public officials pass (or kill) certain policies. In one sense, this is business as usual. Companies ha…
Two faces of rationality
Procedural chances and the equality of claims
Beyond consensual domains
Although Enactivism and cultural anthropology share many core principles, a satisfactory Enactivist approach to culture has not yet been articulated. While the Enactivist embraces the cultural anthropologist’s skepticism with respect to a pregiven world described through objective truths, one of its stumbling blocks has been its difficulty in accounting for the normative background of interpersonal interaction, or what Wolfgang Wagner has referre…
Conscious belief as constructed memory
Conscious belief as constructed memory
Beyond consensual domains
Although Enactivism and cultural anthropology share many core principles, a satisfactory Enactivist approach to culture has not yet been articulated. While the Enactivist embraces the cultural anthropologist’s skepticism with respect to a pregiven world described through objective truths, one of its stumbling blocks has been its difficulty in accounting for the normative background of interpersonal interaction, or what Wolfgang Wagner has referre…
Two faces of rationality
Procedural chances and the equality of claims
The Case against Unanimous Jury Requirements
Here, there, or delaware? How corporate threats distort democracy
Concern for corporate influence on democratic decisions has mostly focused on campaign funding and access to legislators. While these are certainly worrisome, corporations have another tool to influence decisions, which they are increasingly using. They can threaten to move their operations or cancel expansion plans in a municipality unless its public officials pass (or kill) certain policies. In one sense, this is business as usual. Companies ha…
The Wrong Understanding of Praise
Praise, objective rightness and extended action
On the right to be practically sure
In our deliberations about what to do, ought we take for granted the propositions that we know? According to one prominent view, which I'll call the Fallibilist View, it is rational to be very confident in such propositions when deliberating about what to do, but almost never maximally confident in them. The primary appeal of the Fallibilist View is that it appears to address serious shortcomings of the natural alternative, which I'll call the Ce…
Causation, Statistical Evidence, and Toxic Torts
In this paper, I present a puzzle about how courts react to purely statistical evidence and my own tentative approach to solving it. The basic puzzle is that while there are a number of contexts in which statistical evidence is rejected as a foundation for liability, there are others such as toxic torts in which such evidence is thought to be sufficient. While a number of attempts have been made to explain why statistical evidence is unacceptable…
The Composition of Risk
The Moral Evaluation of Repeated Risks
In this article, I argue that there is a tension between our moral evaluation of risky actions and our moral evaluation of sequences of risky actions. In particular, I argue that both of the following may be true: (1) each particular risky action constituting the sequence is permissible, but (2) the sequence of risky actions is one that the agent ought not to perform. I show how these claims are compatible by distinguishing between the moral eval…
The Epistemic Insignificance of Moral Encroachment
While moral encroachment—the view that the moral features of an agent's belief can impact its epistemic status—has received a significant amount of attention, core problems with the view remain unaddressed. In this paper, I aim to accomplish three tasks: first, I argue that if moral encroachment simply applies to cases in which agents engage in statistical reasoning, then the thesis is epistemically redundant. Second, I critically examine the pos…
Philosophy (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 obras) · Free Will and Agency (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)