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26Review of Kevin Timpe’s Free Will in Philosophical Theology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1. 2015.
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25A Hard-line Reply to Pereboom’s Four-Case Manipulation ArgumentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (1): 142-159. 2008.
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21On Baker's Persons and BodiesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 615-622. 2002.1. Consider first Baker’s definition of constitution. In her view, constitution is a relation between concrete individuals. Each concrete individual is fundamentally a member of exactly one primary kind. By definition, any concrete individual has its primary kind membership essentially, so that a concrete individual x’s ceasing to be a member of this kind entails that x ceases to exist. For example, David’s primary kind is statue, Piece’s primary kind is piece of marble. Suppose that x and y are…Read more
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21Bats, Brain Scientists, and the Limitations of IntrospectionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (2): 315-329. 1994.
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20Basic Desert, Reactive Attitudes and Free Will (edited book)Routledge. 2015.Basic Desert, Reactive Attitudes and Free Will addresses the issue of whether we can make sense of the widespread conviction that we are morally responsible beings. It focuses on the claim that we deserve to be blamed and punished for our immoral actions, and how this claim can be justified given the philosophical and scientific reasons to believe that we lack the sort of free will required for this sort of desert. Contributions to the book distinguish between, and explore, two clusters of quest…Read more
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17The Metaphysical and Transcendental DeductionsIn Graham Bird (ed.), A Companion to Kant, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Apperception Representations of Objects Universality and Necessity Logical Forms of Judgment and Categories The Second Step of the B‐Deduction A Final Word.
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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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15Structuralism, Anti-Structuralism and ObjectivityPhilosophic Exchange 40 (1). 2010.Structuralist theories describe the entities in their domains solely in terms of relations, while also claiming to be complete theories of the entities in question. Leibniz and Kant insist that no structuralist theory can be a complete theory. Kant believes that the knowledge afforded by structuralist theories is sufficient. However, Jacques Derrida is skeptical of the sufficiency of structuralist theories for stable knowledge of any kind.
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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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11Book ReviewsJohn Martin Fischer,. My Way.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 260. $45.00Ethics 117 (4): 754-757. 2007.
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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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10A Defense Without Free WillIn Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard‐Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, Wiley. 2013.This chapter explores the prospects that skeptics about free will have for addressing the problem of evil. I argue that skeptics have available many of the resources employed by antiskeptics about free will, and that the responses that involve an essential appeal to free will are not especially powerful. As a result, the theist who is a free will skeptic is not at a significant disadvantage in coping with the problem of evil.
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9Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral ResponsibilityIn Justin Sytsma & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.The chapter begins by introducing the problem of free will and moral responsibility and the standard terminology used to frame it in the philosophical context. It turns to the contributions of experimental philosophy and the prospects for the use of this methodology in the area. People believe that experimental philosophy is relevant to the traditional debates. The chapter discusses an error theory for incompatibilist intuitions proposed by Eddy nahmias and colleagues, and the role that empirica…Read more
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8Doğal Teoloji ve Doğal Din (Stanford Felsefe Ansiklopedisi)Öncül Analitik Felsefe Dergisi. 2024.“Doğal din” terimi, bazen doğanın kendisinin ilahi olduğu bir panteistik doktrine atıfta bulunur. “Doğal teoloji” terimi ise aksine, başlangıçta gözlemlenen doğal gerçekler temelinde (ve bazen) Tanrı’nın varlığını savunmaya yönelik projeye atıfta bulunur. Bununla birlikte çağdaş felsefede, hem “doğal din” hem de “doğal teoloji” genel olarak, dinî veya teolojik konuları araştırmak için insana, “doğal” olan bilişsel yetilerini – akıl, algı, içgözlem- kullanma projesini ifade eder. Doğal din veya t…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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6The problem of evilIn William Mann (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion, Blackwell. 2004.
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6And Divine ProvidenceIn Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 262. 2011.
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5Free will, evil, and divine providenceIn Andrew Dole & Andrew Chignell (eds.), God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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5Early Modern Philosophical Theology on the ContinentIn Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Works cited.
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3Kant on Concept and IntuitionDissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1985.This dissertation is an interpretation of Kant's theory of mental representation, and an attempt to elucidate this theory by viewing it from both historical and contemporary perspectives. After an exposition of Kant's notions of intuition, sensation, and concept, I argue that the theory as a whole can be seen as an Aristotelian reaction against Leibnizian rationalism and Humean empiricism and naturalism. As in Aristotelian theories, Kant argues that there are two distinct types of mental represe…Read more
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