Michael Rabenberg
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Semantic Difficulties in FHIR ‘Conditions’ Open
One goal of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard is to prevent semantic ambiguities when patient data are electronically exchanged. To assess whether the FHIR specifications live up to this expectation, we examine…
Spectrum arguments are incredible Open
Some philosophers have presented arguments that the all-things-considered-better-than relation admits of cycles. The most prominent arguments for this conclusion are spectrum arguments. Whether or not any spectrum arguments are sound is a …
Fiat Surfaces in the Basic Formal Ontology Open
The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) class continuant fiat boundary and its subclasses, including fiat surface, are not heavily axiomatized; they have elucidations, not definitions; and the meanings of these elucidations are poorly captured by …
An Extendible Realism-Based Ontology for Kinship. Open
Adequately representing kinship relations is crucial for a variety of medical and biomedical applications. Several kinship ontologies have been proposed but none of them have been designed thus far in line with the Basic Formal Ontology. I…
Lucretian Puzzles Open
It seems that people typically prefer dying later to dying earlier. It also seems that people typically do not prefer having been created earlier to having been created later. Lucretius’ Puzzle is the question whether anything typically ra…
Matters of Life and Death Open
This dissertation comprises three chapters, each of which is concerned with a normative topic having to do with death.\nChapter 1, “Against Deprivationism,” is concerned with the deprivationist thesis that a person’s death is bad for her i…
Harm Open
In recent years, philosophers have proposed a variety of accounts of the nature of harm. In this paper, I consider several of these accounts and argue that they are unsuccessful. I then make a modest case for a different view.