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2084In defense of flip-floppingSynthese 199 (5-6): 13907-13924. 2021.Some incompatibilists about free will or moral responsibility and determinism would abandon their incompatibilism were they to learn that determinism is true. But is it reasonable to flip-flop in this way? In this article, we contend that it is and show what follows. The result is both a defense of a particular incompatibilist strategy and a general framework for assessing other cases of flip-flopping.
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1824Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2013.
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1806DestinismPhilosophia 50 (3): 983-985. 2022.I raise a puzzle concerning Destinism -- the view that that the only things we can do are those things we in fact do.
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1371Persons, Animals, Ourselves, by Paul F. Snowdon: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 260, £30 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (2): 411-414. 2016.
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1210Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism, by Yujin Nagasawa (review)Faith and Philosophy 36 (2): 275-279. 2019.
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561You could be immaterial (or not)Religious Studies. forthcoming.Materialists about human persons say that we are, and must be, wholly material beings. Substance dualists say that we are, and must be, wholly immaterial. In this paper, I take issue with the “and must be” bits. Both materialists and substance dualists would do well to reject modal extensions of their views and instead opt for contingent doctrines, or doctrines that are silent about those modal extensions. Or so I argue.
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539Bitcoin is kingIn J. Liebowitz (ed.), Cryptocurrency: Concepts, Technology, and Issues, Taylor & Francis. pp. 175-197. 2023.Paul Krugman and others deny that bitcoin has legitimate uses. Critics like Krugman also fail to distinguish bitcoin from other cryptocurrencies. But once we isolate bitcoin from the rest of the field, we see how special, and how useful, it is. In this chapter, we explain why bitcoin is unique among cryptocurrencies as a credibly neutral monetary asset and why this is important. Its uniqueness doesn’t owe entirely to its age (as the oldest) or market ranking (as the most valuable). As a credibly…Read more
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372Digital valuePhilosophy and Digitality. forthcoming.Digital artifacts — humanly-constructed items that inhabit our computers and networks — suffer an unfortunate reputation as being virtual and therefore unreal, and all too easy to reproduce on the cheap. These features together prompt the question of this article: if digital artifacts can be reproduced for free, and if they are unreal, why do they have economic value at all? Using a focal case study of bitcoin — the most unreal digital artifact of them all, and one that has been copied and paste…Read more
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201Contemporary HylomorphismOxford Bibliographies 3 1-12. 2018.Aristotle famously held that objects are comprised of matter and form. That is the central doctrine of hylomorphism (sometimes rendered “hylemorphism”—hyle, matter; morphe, form), and the view has become a live topic of inquiry today. Contemporary proponents of the doctrine include Jeffrey Brower, Kit Fine, David Hershenov, Mark Johnston, Kathrin Koslicki, Anna Marmodoro, Michael Rea, and Patrick Toner, among others. In the wake of these contemporary hylomorphic theories the doctrine has seen ap…Read more
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