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19Guttorm Fløistad (ed.), Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey - Vol. 8: Philosophy of Latin America (review)Philosophy in Review 24 (4): 259-261. 2004.
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185Taking the Highway on Skepticism, Luck, and the Value of ResponsibilityJournal of Moral Philosophy 6 (2): 249-265. 2009.I consider some themes and issues arising in recent work on moral responsibility, focusing on three recent books —Carlos Moya's Moral Responsibility, Al Mele's Free Will and Luck, and John Martin Fischer's My Way. I argue that these texts collectively suggest some difficulties with the way in which many issues are currently framed in the free will debates, including disputes about what constitutes compatibilism and incompatibilism and the relevance of intuitions and ordinary language for descri…Read more
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33Razian Responsibility (review)Jurisprudence 5 (1): 161-172. 2014.This essay considers two aspects of Joseph Raz's recent work: (1) his theory of responsibility, arising out his reflections on something he calls "our Being in the World," and (2) the methodological presumptions that guide his account. On the matter of responsibility, his notion of "domains of secure competence" is suggestive but unclear. Natural regimentations of the idea suggest a host of problems in the specification of competence, and whether the notion is to be understood subjectively or th…Read more
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62Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology.The essays in this volume engage with ideas and themes prominent in Bratman's work. The volume also includes a lengthy reply by Bratman that breaks new ground and deepens our understanding of the nature of action
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294Psychopaths and moral knowledgePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 14 (2): 157-162. 2007.Neil Levy (2007) argues that empirical data shows that psychopaths lack the moral knowledge required for moral responsibility. His account is intriguing, and it offers a promising way to think about the significance of psychopaths for work on moral responsibility. In what follows we focus on three lines of concern connected to Levy's account: his interpretation of the data, the scope of exculpation, and the significance of biological explanations for anti-social behavior.
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222Philosophy and the Folk: On Some Implications of Experimental Work For Philosophical Debates on Free WillJournal of Cognition and Culture 6 (1-2): 239-254. 2006.I discuss experimental work by Nichols, and Nichols and Knobe, with respect to the philosophical problems of free will and moral responsibility. I mention some methodological concerns about the work, but focus principally on the philosophical implications of the work. The experimental results seem to show that in particular, concrete cases we are more willing to attribute responsibility than in cases described abstractly or in general terms. I argue that their results suggest a deep problem for …Read more
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33Lessons from the Philosophy of Race in MexicoPhilosophy Today, SPEP Supplement 2000 26 (Supplement): 18-29. 2000.
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134Eurocentrism and the Philosophy of LiberationAPA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues 4 (2): 8-17. 2005.Proponents of the philosophy of liberation generally counsel that various forms of liberation in at least the Americas requires that we should fight Eurocentrism and resist the ontology and conceptual framework of Europe. However, most of the work done in this tradition relies heavily on the terminology and theoretical apparatus of various strands of European philosophy. The apparent disconnect between the aims and methods (or if you like, the theory and practice) has given rise to a criticism I…Read more
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134Social Explanations and the Free Will ProblemIn Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility, . pp. 403-411. 2014.There is strikingly little agreement across academic fields about the existence of free will, what experimental results show, and even what the term ‘free will’ means. In Lee and Harris’ “A Social Perspective on Debates About Free Will” the authors argue that group identities and their attendant social rewards are part of the problem. As they portray it, “different philosophical stances create social groups and inherent conflict, hindering interdisciplinary intellectual exploration on the questi…Read more
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52Review of Mele, Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (9). 2009.
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17Culture and the Value of Philosophy: The Latin American CaseComparative Philosophy 1 (1): 33-52. 2010.
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279Revisionism about free will: a statement & defensePhilosophical Studies 144 (1): 45-62. 2009.This article summarizes the moderate revisionist position I put forth in Four Views on Free Will and responds to objections to it from Robert Kane, John Martin Fischer, Derk Pereboom, and Michael McKenna. Among the principle topics of the article are (1) motivations for revisionism, what it is, and how it is different from compatibilism and hard incompatibilism, (2) an objection to the distinctiveness of semicompatibilism against conventional forms of compatibilism, and (3) whether moderate revi…Read more
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