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218Responsibility and the Kinds of FreedomThe Journal of Ethics 12 (3-4). 2008.In this paper I seek to identify different sorts of freedom putatively linked to moral responsibility; I then explore the relationship between such notions of freedom and the Consequence Argument, on the one hand, and the Frankfurt-examples, on the other. I focus (in part) on a dilemma: if a compatibilist adopts a broadly speaking "conditional" understanding of freedom in reply to the Consequence Argument, such a theorist becomes vulnerable in a salient way to the Frankfurt-examples
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360Responsibility and manipulationThe Journal of Ethics 8 (2): 145-177. 2004.I address various critiques of the approach to moral responsibility sketched in previous work by Ravizza and Fischer. I especially focus on the key issues pertaining to manipulation.
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37Responsibility and FailureProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 86. 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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1Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral ResponsibilityPhilosophical Quarterly 49 (197): 543-545. 1999.
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52Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral ResponsibilityPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 61 (2): 459-466. 1998.
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1369Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral ResponsibilityCambridge University Press. 1998.This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility. The authors explore the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions. The leading idea in the book is that moral responsibility is based on 'guidance control'. This control has two components: the mechanism that issues in the relevant behavior must be the agent's own mechanism, and it must be appropriately responsive to reasons. The book develops an acco…Read more
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64Responsibility, Autonomy, and the Zygote ArgumentThe Journal of Ethics 21 (3): 223-237. 2017.In this paper I argue that the distinction between moral responsibility and autonomy can illuminate various debates about the Zygote Argument. Having made this distinction, one can see how these manipulation arguments are unsuccessful. Building on previous work, I also argue that this distinction can provide a framework for understanding other important work in agency theory, including that of Harry Frankfurt and Gary Watson.
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62Replies (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2): 467-480. 2000.I am very grateful to the thoughtful and probing critical discussions by the nine authors who have discussed themes from my two collections, My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility, and Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will. In this essay I seek to respond to some of the points raised in these essays. I am unable to address all of the critiques, but I have certainly learned a great deal from these extremely insightful and generous papers, and I hope to address more of the issues in fu…Read more
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6RepliesSocial Theory and Practice 37 (1): 143-181. 2011.I am very grateful to the thoughtful and probing critical discussions by the nine authors who have discussed themes from my two collections, My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility, and Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will. In this essay I seek to respond to some of the points raised in these essays. I am unable to address all of the critiques, but I have certainly learned a great deal from these extremely insightful and generous papers, and I hope to address more of the issues in fu…Read more
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83Responsibility and autonomy: The problem of mission creepPhilosophical Issues 22 (1): 165-184. 2012.
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76Replies (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (1): 267-278. 2009.I am very grateful to the thoughtful and probing critical discussions by the nine authors who have discussed themes from my two collections, My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility, and Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will. In this essay I seek to respond to some of the points raised in these essays. I am unable to address all of the critiques, but I have certainly learned a great deal from these extremely insightful and generous papers, and I hope to address more of the issues in fu…Read more
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40Responsibility and agent-causationIn David Widerker & Michael McKenna (eds.), Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities, Ashgate. 2003.
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33Precis, our stories: essays on life, death, and free will (review)Philosophical Studies 158 (3): 503-506. 2012.
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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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113Precis of my way: Essays on moral responsibility (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (1): 229-241. 2009.
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Putting Molinism in its PlaceIn Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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336Our stories: essays on life, death, and free willOxford University Press. 2009.Introduction: "meaning in life and death : our stories" -- John Martin Fischer and Anthony B rueckner, "Why is death bad?", Philosophical studies, vol. 50, no. 2 (September 1986) -- "Death, badness, and the impossibility of experience," Journal of ethics -- John Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak, "Death and the psychological conception of personal identity," Midwest studies in philosophy, vol. 24 -- "Earlier birth and later death : symmetry through thick and thin," Richard Feldman, Kris McDaniel,…Read more
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