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8Dean Winchester and the Supernatural Problem of EvilIn Galen A. Foresman (ed.), Supernatural and Philosophy, Wiley. 2013-09-05.Casey, in Supernatural, alludes to one of the oldest and most resilient arguments against the existence of God, the problem of evil. This problem arises from an apparent conflict between the existence of evil and the attributes that Western theists attribute to God. Casey's challenge to the existence of God is called the logical problem of evil by philosophers. Casey's problem of evil focused on an apparent logical inconsistency between believing in a God that is all‐powerful, all‐knowing, and a…Read more
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2Moral Foundations are not Moral PropositionsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 42 (154). 2019.Joshua May responds to skepticism about moral knowledge via appeal to empirical work on moral foundations. I demonstrate that the moral foundations literature is not able to do the work May needs. It demonstrates shared moral cognition, not shared moral judgment, and therefore, May's attempt to defeat general skepticism fails.
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26Reason’s Debt to Freedom: Normative Appraisals, Reasons, and Free WillIshtiyaque HajiOxford University Press, 2012; ix + 259 pp. $65.00 (review)Dialogue 52 (2): 415-416. 2013.
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3A leading objection to the compatibility of moral responsibility and determinism (the manipulation argument) involves a thought-experiment in which a person is manipulated such that she satisfies the most robust compatibilist conditions for morally responsible agency. It seems counter-intuitive to hold this person morally responsible for what she has been manipulated to do, and so, the argument goes, compatibilism is flawed. I argue that compatibilists should maintain that agents who experience …Read more
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110In defense of hard-line replies to the multiple-case manipulation argumentPhilosophical Studies 163 (3): 797-811. 2013.I defend a hard-line reply to Derk Pereboom’s four-case manipulation argument. Pereboom accuses compatibilists who take a hard-line reply to his manipulation argument of adopting inappropriate initial attitudes towards the cases central to his argument. If Pereboom is correct he has shown that a hard-line response is inadequate. Fortunately for the compatibilist, Pereboom’s list of appropriate initial attitudes is incomplete and at least one of the initial attitudes he leaves out provides room f…Read more
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77Merit, fit, and basic desertPhilosophical Explorations 16 (2): 226-239. 2013.Basic desert is central to the dispute between compatibilists and incompatibilists over the four-case manipulation argument. I argue that there are two distinct ways of understanding the desert salient to moral responsibility; moral desert can be understood as a claim about fitting responses to an agent or as a claim about the merit of the agent. Failing to recognize this distinction has contributed to a stalemate between both sides. I suggest that recognizing these distinct approaches to moral …Read more
Dan Haas
Red Deer Polytechnic
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Red Deer PolytechnicAssociate Dean Humanities and Social Sciences
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Free Will |
Areas of Interest
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