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27Review Essay: The Metaphysics of ControlThe Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on ControlPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (4): 955. 1997.
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25Naturalism and the Beauty of Near-Death Experiences: Replies to CommentatorsJournal of Consciousness Studies 27 (11-12): 244-263. 2020.
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25Local-Miracle Compatibilism: A CritiqueIn Marco Hausmann & Jörg Noller (eds.), Free Will: Historical and Analytic Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 111-138. 2021.The Consequence Argument is one of the leading arguments for the incompatibility of causal determinism and free will in the sense of freedom to do otherwise. Thus, it challenges “classical compatibilism” of the sort defended by many philosophers, such as Hume, Schlick, Ayer, Lehrer, Perry, Lewis, Vihvelin, et, al. David Lewis has offered what has become the most influential response: local-miracle compatibilism. I present a critique of this kind of response to the Consequence Argument. My critiq…Read more
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24Review of R. Jay Wallace: Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (review)Ethics 106 (4): 850-853. 1996.
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24Power over the PastPacific Philosophical Quarterly 65 (4): 335. 1984.I distinguish two versions of the "basic" argument for the incompatibility of god's foreknowledge and human freedom to do otherwise. I discuss various examples which purport to show that the first version is unsound. These examples seem to be cases in which an agent can do something, And if he were to do that thing, The past would have been different from what it actually was. I argue that these examples apply only to the first, And not to the second version of the incompatibilities argument
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23XIV*—Responsibility and FailureProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 86 (1): 251-272. 1986.John Martin Fischer; XIV*—Responsibility and Failure, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 86, Issue 1, 1 June 1986, Pages 251–272, https://doi.org/1.
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23The papers in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting of 1994. The papers were selected by the 1993-1994 Pacific Division Program Committee, whose members include: Jean Hampton (Chair) (review)Philosophical Studies 77 (193)
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23Review of F. M. Kamm: Morality, Mortality: Volume 1: Death and Whom to Save It From (review)Ethics 105 (4): 933-938. 1995.
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23The Non-Reality of Free Will, by Richard Double (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (4): 1004-1007. 1992.
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23Much more than just an anthology, this survey of humanity's search for the meaning of life includes the latest contributions to the debate, a judicious selection of key canonical essays, and insightful commentary by internationally respected philosophers.
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18Destinism: Puzzle SolvedPhilosophia 50 (4): 1785-1789. 2022.In a recent article in this journal, “Destinism,” Andrew Bailey presents a puzzle for “Destinism,” the view that the only things we can do are those we in fact do. The puzzle is intriguing and important in part because it challenges a doctrine that many philosophers think could be true compatibly with our being morally responsible. Destinism is at least a viable view. Bailey’s puzzle derives from very plausible assumptions, but I argue that these assumptions are not as plausible as they appear. …Read more
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18Morał z przykładów frankfurtowskichRoczniki Filozoficzne 69 (4): 441-465. 2021.Przekład na podstawie: “The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories”, Philosophical Review 119 : 315–336. Przekład za zgodą Autora Autor argumentuje, że morał przykładów frankfurtowskich jest następujący: jeśli determinizm przyczynowy wyklucza odpowiedzialność moralną, to nie na mocy eliminacji alternatywnych możliwości, a następnie odpowiada na najważniejsze wyzwanie dla tej tezy, mianowicie argument nazywany „obroną przez dylemat”.
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18What Moral Responsibility is NotIn James F. Childress & Michael Quante (eds.), Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy: Personal Autonomy in Ethics and Bioethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-16. 2021.Moral responsibility and autonomy are closely related structurally and contentwise: they are both members of the “freedom family”. Here I argue that because of these similarities, they are often conflated or at least not carefully separated, and that this has resulted in confusions in important contemporary debates. Autonomy and moral responsibility involve the agent’s identification with the sources of her actions; but autonomy-identification is more robust than responsibility-identification.
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