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The Luck Argument Against LibertarianismIn Allan McCay & Michael Sevel (eds.), Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 66-84. 2019.
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30Ultimate Responsibility in a Deterministic WorldThe Significance of Free Will (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 135. 2000.
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62Liberation From Self: A Theory of Personal AutonomyCambridge University Press. 1995.This is a detailed, sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of autonomy. Moreover it argues for a quite different conception of autonomy from that found in the philosophical literature. Professor Berofsky claims that the idea of autonomy originating in the self is a seductive but ultimately illusory one. The only serious way of approaching the subject is to pay due attention to psychology, and to view autonomy as the liberation from the disabling effects of physiological and psychological affl…Read more
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42Hume and the Problem of Causation by Tom L. Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg (review)Journal of Philosophy 80 (8): 478-492. 1983.
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49Nature's Challenge to Free WillOxford University Press USA. 2012.Bernard Berofsky addresses that metaphysical picture directly.Nature's Challenge to Free Willoffers an original defense of Humean Compatibilism.
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181Free will and the mind–body problemAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (1). 2010.Compatibilists regard subsumption under certain sorts of deterministic psychological laws as sufficient for free will. As _bona fide_ laws, their existence poses problems for the thesis of the unalterability of laws, a cornerstone of the Consequence Argument against compatibilism. The thesis is challenged, although a final judgment must wait upon resolution of controversies about the nature of laws. Another premise of the Consequence Argument affirms the supervenience of mental states on physica…Read more
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8VI. The Regularity Theory: TranslatabilityIn Determinism, Princeton University Press. pp. 179-220. 1971.
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130Freedom From Necessity: The Metaphysical Basis of ResponsibilityRoutledge. 1987.Introduction No philosophical problem is more deserving of the title 'the free will problem' than that concerning the assessment of the claim that a ...
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79The myth of sourceActa Analytica 21 (4). 2006.If determinism is a threat to freedom, that threat derives solely from its alleged eradication of power. The source incompatibilist mistakenly supposes that special views about the self are required to insure that we are the ultimate source of and in control of our decisions and actions. Source incompatibilism fails whether it takes the form of Robert Kane’s event-causal libertarianism or the various agent-causal varieties defended by Derk Pereboom and Randolph Clarke. It is argued that the sort…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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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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12VII. The Regularity Theory: AdequacyIn Determinism, Princeton University Press. pp. 221-252. 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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