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282What Freedom in a Deterministic World Must BeMind 130 (519): 863-885. 2021.Contrary to Lewis and Vihvelin, I argue that free will in a deterministic world is an ability to break a law of nature or to change the remote past. Even if it were true, as Lewis and Vihvelin think, that an agent who is predetermined to perform a particular act might not break a law or change the remote past by doing otherwise, it would nevertheless be true that he is able to do otherwise only if he is able to break a law or to change the remote past.
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85Free Will and DesireErkenntnis 85 (6): 1347-1360. 2020.I make a case for the thesis that no one can refrain from trying to attain the object of his or her currently strongest desire. I arrive there by defending an argument by Peter van Inwagen for a relatively mild conclusion about the way desires limit our abilities, and by arguing that if van Inwagen’s conclusion is correct, and correct for his reasons, so is my bolder thesis. I close with replies to objections, such as the objection that it is better to take my argument as a reductio ad absurdum …Read more
University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 2020
APA Western Division
San Luis Obispo County, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
| Value Theory |
| Metaphysics, Miscellaneous |
Areas of Interest
| Ethical Theories, Miscellaneous |