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15The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.This book brings together thirteen articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporary work on these philosophers. The articles have all been produced since 1980, and their authors are among the most respected in the field.
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181A Compatibilist Account of the Epistemic Conditions on Rational DeliberationThe Journal of Ethics 12 (3-4). 2008.A traditional concern for determinists is that the epistemic conditions an agent must satisfy to deliberate about which of a number of distinct actions to perform threaten to conflict with a belief in determinism and its evident consequences. I develop an account of the sort that specifies two epistemic requirements, an epistemic openness condition and a belief in the efficacy of deliberation, whose upshot is that someone who believes in determinism and its evident consequences can deliberate wi…Read more
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609Free Will Skepticism and BypassingIn Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 4, Mit Press. 2014.Discusses Eddy Nahmias' “Is Free Will an Illusion?”
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53Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral ResponsibilityLexington Books. 2013.Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility is an edited collection of new essays by an internationally recognized line-up of contributors. It is aimed at readers who wish to explore the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications
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6And Divine ProvidenceIn Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 262. 2011.
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88Reasons-responsiveness, alternative possibilities, and manipulation arguments against compatibilism: Reflections on John Martin Fischer's my wayPhilosophical Books 47 (3): 198-212. 2006.
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155A Defense of Free Will Skepticism: Replies to Commentaries by Victor Tadros, Saul Smilansky, Michael McKenna, and Alfred R. Mele on Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in LifeCriminal Law and Philosophy 11 (3): 617-636. 2017.This paper features Derk Pereboom’s replies to commentaries by Victor Tadros and Saul Smilansky on his non-retributive, incapacitation-focused proposal for treatment of dangerous criminals; by Michael McKenna on his manipulation argument against compatibilism about basic desert and causal determination; and by Alfred R. Mele on his disappearing agent argument against event-causal libertarianism.
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