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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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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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65Identification, the self, and autonomySocial Philosophy and Policy 20 (2): 199-220. 2003.Autonomy, we suppose, is self-regulation or self-direction. There is a distinct idea that is easily confused with self-direction, namely, self-expression, self-fulfillment, or self-realization. Although it will turn out paradoxically that autonomy is neither self-regulation nor self-realization, it is reasonable to suppose that the former is a superior candidate. My teacher of Indian religion, Dr. Subodh Roy, blind from birth, chose not to undergo an operation that would have made him sighted be…Read more
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150Global control and freedomPhilosophical Studies 131 (2): 419-445. 2006.Several prominent incompatibilists, e.g., Robert Kane and Derk Pereboom, have advanced an analogical argument in which it is claimed that a deterministic world is essentially the same as a world governed by a global controller. Since the latter world is obviously one lacking in an important kind of freedom, so must any deterministic world. The argument is challenged whether it is designed to show that determinism precludes freedom as power or freedom as self-origination. Contrary to the claims o…Read more
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Is Pathological Altruism Altruism?In Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan & David Sloan Wilson (eds.), Pathological Altruism, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Ifs, cans, and free will: The issuesIn Robert Kane (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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7X. The Alleged Triviality of DeterminismIn Determinism, Princeton University Press. pp. 273-281. 1971.
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12The Irrelevance of Morality to FreedomBowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 2 38-47. 1980.
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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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