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2Indeterminism and control: An approach to the problem of luckIn Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Neuroscience, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2005.Over the last three decades there has been a tremendous amount of philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster of topics pertaining to Free Will. Contemporary work has in some instances been in the form of lively debates between proponents of different viewpoints, and literature surrounding the area is therefore characterized by a genuine vitality. This collection selects the very best of this material and presents it in a single, accessible set of volumes.
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1Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral ResponsibilityPhilosophical Quarterly 49 (197): 543-545. 1999.
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1The resilience of moral responsibilityIn Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law & Neal A. Tognazzini (eds.), Freedom, Responsibility, and Value: Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer, Routledge. 2023.
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1Free Will and Moral ResponsibilityIn David Copp (ed.), The Oxford handbook of ethical theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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The direct argument: You say goodbye, I say helloIn Nick Trakakis & Daniel Cohen (eds.), Essays on free will and moral responsibility, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 209--223. 2008.
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Introduction: Responsibility and freedomIn John Martin Fischer (ed.), Moral Responsibility, Cornell University Press. 1986.
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Putting Molinism in its PlaceIn Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Contemporary Approaches to Free WillDissertation, Cornell University. 1982.I begin with two compatibilist analyses of freedom: the conditional analysis and Lehrer's possible-worlds analysis. While certain arguments fail to undermine the conditional analysis, I present one which shows the inadequacy of the simple conditional analysis and a class of refinements of it. I find reason to reject the simple conditional analysis, refinements designed to account for "schizophrenic" objects, and Lehrer's conjunction of conditionals. ;I show how we might modify Lehrer's possible-…Read more
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The freedom required for moral responsibilityIn David Owen Brink, Susan SauveĢ Meyer & Christopher John Shields (eds.), Virtue, happiness, knowledge: themes from the work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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God, foreknowledge and freedomRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 180 (4): 728-729. 1990.
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When the will is freeIn Timothy O'Connor (ed.), Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will, Oxford University Press Usa. 1995.
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Freedom and determinismIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 385--388. 1992.
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Four Views on Free Will, Second Edition (2nd ed.)John Wiley & Sons. 2024.Four Views on Free Will is a robust and careful debate about free will, how it interacts with determinism and indeterminism, and whether we have it or not. Providing the most up-to-date account of four major positions in the free will debate, the second edition of this classic text presents the opposing perspectives of renowned philosophers John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas. Substantially revised throughout, this new volume contains eight in-depth chapters, almos…Read more
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Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29) (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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