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    What's the Use of Free Will?
    In Kimberly S. Engels (ed.), The Good Place and Philosophy, Wiley. 2020.
    The issue of free will is always lurking in the background of The Good Place, a show deeply concerned with making choices, doing the right thing, and moral responsibility. This chapter offers a careful analysis of the arguments exchanged between the two characters, Eleanor and Michael, in The Good Place. The idea that everything, including human behavior, has a cause of some sort is called “determinism.” More precisely, determinism is the view that everything that happens is caused by other thin…Read more
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    Properties of Being in Heidegger’s Being and Time
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (3): 461-481. 2014.
    While it is well known that the early Heidegger distinguishes between different ‘kinds of being’ and identifies various ‘structures’ that compose them, there has been little discussion about what these kinds and structures of being are. This paper defends the ‘Property Thesis’, the position that kinds of being (and their structures) are properties of the entities that have them. I give two arguments for this thesis. The first is grounded in the fact that Heidegger refers to kinds and structures …Read more