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130Defending hard incompatibilism againIn Nick Trakakis & Daniel Cohen (eds.), Essays on free will and moral responsibility, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 1--33. 2008.
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140Free Will Skepticism and Meaning in LifeIn Robert Kane (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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155Further thoughts about a Frankfurt-style argumentPhilosophical Explorations 12 (2). 2009.I have presented a Frankfurt-style argument (Pereboom 2000, 2001, 2003) against the requirement of robust alternative possibilities for moral responsibility that features an example, Tax Evasion , in which an agent is intuitively morally responsible for a decision, has no robust alternative possibilities, and is clearly not causally determined to make the decision. Here I revise the criterion for robustness in response to suggestions by Dana Nelkin, Jonathan Vance, and Kevin Timpe, and I respond…Read more
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132Free Will Skepticism and Criminal PunishmentIn Thomas A. Nadelhoffer (ed.), The Future of Punishment, Oup Usa. pp. 49. 2013.
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282Kant's theory of causation and its eighteenth-century German backgroundPhilosophical Review 119 (4): 565-591. 2010.This critical notice highlights the important contributions that Eric Watkins's writings have made to our understanding of theories about causation developed in eighteenth-century German philosophy and by Kant in particular. Watkins provides a convincing argument that central to Kant's theory of causation is the notion of a real ground or causal power that is non-Humean (since it doesn't reduce to regularities or counterfactual dependencies among events or states) and non-Leibnizean because it d…Read more
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202A hard-line reply to the multiple-case manipulation argumentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (1): 160-170. 2008.No Abstract
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128Consciousness and the Prospects of PhysicalismOxford University Press. 2011.In this book, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments are set out and developed. The first exploits the open possibility that introspective representations fail to represent mental properties as they are in themselves; specifically, that introspection represents phenomenal properties as having certain characteristic qualitative natures, which these propert…Read more
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7A Compatibilist Account of the Beliefs Required for Rational DeliberationThe Journal of Ethics 12 (3-4): 287-306. 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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75Conceptual structure and the individuation of contentPhilosophical Perspectives 9 401-428. 1995.Current attempts to understand psychological content divide into two families of views. According to externalist accounts such as those advanced by Tyler Burge and Ruth Millikan, psychological content does not supervene on the physical features of the individual subject, but is fixed partially by the nature of the world external to her.1 In the rival functional role theories developed by Ned Block and Brian Loar, content does supervene on the physical features of the individual, and is, in addit…Read more
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11Book ReviewsJohn Martin Fischer,. My Way.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 260. $45.00Ethics 117 (4): 754-757. 2007.
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117Alternative possibilities and causal historiesPhilosopical Perspectives 14 (s14): 119-138. 2000.
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23Bats, Brain Scientists, and the Limitations of IntrospectionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (2): 315-329. 1994.
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26A Hard-line Reply to Pereboom’s Four-Case Manipulation ArgumentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (1): 142-159. 2008.
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51Consciousness and introspective inaccuracyIn Samuel Newlands & Larry M. Jorgensen (eds.), Metaphysics and the good: themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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168Bats, brain scientists, and the limitations of introspectionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (2): 315-29. 1994.
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12Early Modern Philosophical TheologyIn Philip Quinn & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Blackwell. 1996.
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10Book Review. Libertarian Accounts of Free Will. Randolph Clarke. (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (1): 269-72. 2007.
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64Free Will: A Contemporary IntroductionRoutledge. 2014.If my ability to react freely is constrained by forces beyond my control, am I still morally responsible for the things I do? The question of whether, how and to what extent we are responsible for our own actions has always been central to debates in philosophy and theology, and has been the subject of much recent research in cognitive science. And for good reason- the views we take on free will affect the choices we make as individuals, the moral judgments we make of others, and they will infor…Read more
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1277Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral ResponsibilityIn Wesley Buckwalter & Justin Sytsma (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Blackwell. pp. 142-57. 2016.Examines the relevance of empirical studies of responsibility judgments for traditional philosophical concerns about free will and moral responsibility. We argue that experimental philosophy is relevant to the traditional debates, but that setting up experiments and interpreting data in just the right way is no less difficult than negotiating traditional philosophical arguments. Both routes are valuable, but so far neither promises a way to secure significant agreement among the competing partie…Read more
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2537Four Views on Free WillWiley-Blackwell. 2007.Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’s explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other’s arg…Read more
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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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