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8Autonomy and Free WillIn J. S. Taylor (ed.), Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contermporary Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2004.If the incompatibilist is right, determinism annuls free will, but not necessarily autonomy. The possibly deterministic origin of values and beliefs that are objectively grounded does not undermine the autonomy of agents who maintain these for the right reasons. Nonobjective perspectives—preferences about lifestyle, profession, choice of mate— cannot anyway be entirely removed even for an unlimited being. Moreover, if one were lucky to have inherited contingencies that mesh perfectly with the w…Read more
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2XII. Deterministic Theories and the Observable WorldIn Determinism, Princeton University Press. pp. 291-297. 1971.
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Freedom Without SelfIn Charles Harry Manekin & Menachem Marc Kellner (eds.), Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives, University Press of Maryland. 1997.
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12VII. The Regularity Theory: AdequacyIn Determinism, Princeton University Press. pp. 221-252. 1971.
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57Freedom as CreativityJournal of Philosophy 112 (7): 373-395. 2015.Determinism poses a prima facie problem about free will only if the latter is understood as counterfactual power, understood categorically, rather than self-determination. A key premise of the defense of incompatibilism provided by the Consequence Argument, namely, that laws are unalterable, presupposes that laws include more than the fundamental laws of physics. This premise is challenged by appeal to actual cases. The necessitarian assumptions embodied in that premise can be successfully chall…Read more
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67Classical Compatibilism: Not Dead YetIn Michael McKenna & David Widerker (eds.), Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities, Ashgate. pp. 107. 2003.
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40Through thick and thin: Mele on autonomyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (3): 689-697. 1998.
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