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72Naturalism and the First Person Perspective By Lynne Rudder BakerAnalysis 74 (4): 733-735. 2014.
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572Aborting 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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1140Reasons, Facts‐About‐Evidence, and Indirect EvidenceAnalytic Philosophy 54 (2): 237-243. 2013.
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95Ishtiyaque 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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111Compatibilism 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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146Responsibility for necessitiesPhilosophical Studies 155 (2): 307-324. 2011.It is commonly held that no one can be morally responsible for a necessary truth. In this paper, I will provide various examples that cast doubt on this idea. I also show that one popular argument for the incompatibility of moral responsibility and determinism (van Inwagen’s Direct Argument) fails given my examples
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