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27Discussion with Harry Frankfurt - Responsibility in Autonomy Undermining CircumstancesEthical Perspectives 5 (1): 30-35. 1998.In 1969 Prof. Frankfurt has introduced a famous class of counterexamples to the Principle of Alternate Possibilities. The principle that states that a person x is only responsible for an action y, if she could have done otherwise than y. In these examples a so called ‘counterfactual intervener’ figures that pre-empts all alternate possibilities counterfactually, that is, without actually intervening. Because this counterfactual intervener only looms passively in the background, x’s moral respons…Read more
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33IntroductionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 15 (1): 3-5. 2016.The idea that human beings experience their lives as some sort of story and tend to understand themselves as authors of a narrative has become increasingly popular in philosophy. Some philosophers suggest that narratives are indispensable when it comes to answering the traditional question associated with personal (numerical) identity: what makes it the case that the person considered at time t0 is the same person as the person considered at time t1? They claim that taking a narrative approach t…Read more
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Deliberatief bewustzijn, bewuste controle en moreel actorschapAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 101 (2): 128-134. 2009.
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30Contentsintroductionmorality in times of naturalising the mind – an overviewpart I: Free will, responsibility and the naturalised mind1. Naturalizing free will – empirical and conceptual issues2. Libet’s experiments and the possibility of free conscious decision3. The effectiveness of intentions – a critique of wegnerpart II: Naturalising ethics? – Metaethical perspectives4. Neuroethics and the rationalism/sentimentalism divide5. Experimental ethics – a critical analysispart III: Naturalised ethics? Empirical perspectives6. Moral soulfulness & moral hypocrisy – is scientific study of moral agency relevant to ethical reflection?Part IV: Neuroethics – which values?7. The rationale behind surgery –truth, facts, valuesbiographical notes on the authorsname index (review)In Morality in Times of Naturalising the Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 165-192. 2014.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy, Misc |