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1375Weighing ReasonsJournal of Moral Philosophy 10 (1): 70-86. 2013.This paper is a response to two sets of published criticisms of the 'Reasons as Evidence’ thesis concerning normative reasons, proposed and defended in earlier papers. According to this thesis, a fact is a normative reason for an agent to Φ just in case this fact is evidence that this agent ought to Φ. John Broome and John Brunero have presented a number of challenging criticisms of this thesis which focus, for the most part, on problems that it appears to confront when it comes to the topic of …Read more
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43Finding the Value in Things: Remarks on Markovits's Moral ReasonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (2): 539-548. 2016.
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72Naturalism and the First Person Perspective By Lynne Rudder BakerAnalysis 74 (4): 733-735. 2014.
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581Aborting the zygote argumentPhilosophical Studies 160 (3): 379-389. 2012.Alfred Mele’s zygote argument for incompatibilism is based on a case involving an agent in a deterministic world whose entire life is planned by someone else. Mele’s contention is that Ernie (the agent) is unfree and that normal determined agents are relevantly similar to him with regards to free will. In this paper, I examine four different ways of understanding this argument and then criticize each interpretation. I then extend my criticism to manipulation arguments in general. I conclude that…Read more
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1142Reasons, Facts‐About‐Evidence, and Indirect EvidenceAnalytic Philosophy 54 (2): 237-243. 2013.
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96Ishtiyaque Haji, Incompatibilism's Allure: Principal Arguments for Incompatibilism (review)Philosophical Review 119 (3): 391-394. 2010.
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148Review of "The Metaphysics of Everday Life" (review)Philosophical Review 118 (4): 533-536. 2009.
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112Compatibilism can resist prepunishment: a reply to SmilanskyAnalysis 68 (3): 250-253. 2008.No Abstract
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112Can a thing be part of itself?American Philosophical Quarterly (1): 87. 2011.Why might someone consider the answer to the titular question to be trivial? Perhaps because she has read some mereology and understands that mereologists distinguish between parthood on the one hand and proper parthood on the other. She understands that, at least when talking in the language of mereology, a thing is necessarily not a proper part of itself, but is necessarily a part of itself. Whether the English word “part” expresses parthood or proper parthood does not seem too important, seei…Read more
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