Harm: Omission, Preemption, Freedom

Harm: Omission, Preemption, Freedom

CCA is an attractive account of harm. It has many virtues and many advantages over its competitors. But I won’t explore those features here. Ben Bradley gives a nice summary of them, though he ultimately rejects CCA (2012: 396–7, 401). In this paper, I’ll reply to two objections to CCA that haven’t been adequately addressed in the literature. Some critics think that certain omission and preempt...

Aggregate Analysis of Dose Omission Incidents Reported as Causing Harm

The omission of one or more doses of prescribed medication, which can occur at almost any stage of the medication-use process,1 is among the most commonly reported types of medication incident across different hospital care settings.1-4 Dose omission incidents, including inadvertent discontinuation of a medication, can have clinically insignificant effects; however, some incidents of this type ...

Territorial Claims in the Domain of Accidental Harm: Conflicting Conceptions of Tort Preemption

Trumping Preemption

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Preemption Operators

We introduce a family of operators for belief change that aim at making a new piece of information to be preemptive so that any former belief subsuming it is given up. That is, the current belief base is to be altered even in the case that it is logically consistent with the new piece of information. Existing operators for belief revision are inadequate for this purpose because they amount to s...