•  105
    Selbstbestimmung. Freier Wille, Verantwortung und Determinismus
    Synthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 455-475. 2007.
    Eine Analyse unseres auf dem gesunden Menschenverstand beruhenden Freiheitskonzeptes ergibt zwei „minimale Kriterien“: 1) Autonomie bedeutet einen Unterschied zwischen Freiheit und Zwang; 2) Urheberschaft bedeutet einen Unterschied zwischen Freiheit und Zufall. Die Auslegung von Freiheit als „Selbstbestimmung“ kann für beide Kriterien in Anspruch genommen werden. „Selbstbestimmung“ wird verstanden als Bestimmung anhand „persönlicher Vorlieben“, die für die betreffende Person konstituierend sind.…Read more
  •  18
    Editors' Introduction
    with Alexander Staudacher and Sven Walter
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (1-2): 7-19. 2006.
  •  64
    Materialism, metaphysics, and the intuition of distinctness
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 18 (7-8): 7-8. 2011.
    According to many philosophers, an 'explanatory gap' exists between third-person scientific theories and qualitative firstperson experience of mental states like pain feelings or colour experiences such that the former can't explain the latter. Here it is argued that the thought experiments that are invoked by this position are inconsistent, that the position requires a specific kind of first-person privilege which actually does not exist, and that the underlying argument is circular because it …Read more
  •  51
    The Complex Network of Intentions
    with John-Dylan Haynes
    In Gregg Caruso (ed.), Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Lexington Books. pp. 221. 2013.
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    The Functional Mapping Hypothesis
    Topoi 36 (1): 107-118. 2017.
    Dissociation thought experiments like Zombie and Inverted Spectrum cases play an essential role in the qualia debate. Critics have long since argued that these cases raise serious epistemic issues, undermining first person access to phenomenal states also in normal subjects. Proponents have denied this because, due to their phenomenal experience, normal subjects have epistemic abilities that Zombies don’t have. Here I will present a modified version of these thought experiments: Part-time Zombie…Read more
  •  19
    Keine wissenschaftliche Debatte ist in den letzten Jahren mit soviel Vehemenz in der Öffentlichkeit ausgetragen worden, wie der Streit um die Willensfreiheit. Der traditionelle Begriff von "Willensfreiheit", der auch dem deutschen Strafrecht und seinem Schuldbegriff zugrundeliegt, setzt voraus, daß Menschen jenseits aller psychologischen und neurobiologischen Determinanten entscheiden und handeln können. Eine solche Konzeption von Willensfreiheit ist weder begrifflich-philosophisch noch empirisc…Read more
  •  13
    Revision der Moderne Th. W. Adorno und Jean-François Lyotard
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (11): 1266-1278. 1991.
  •  38
    Neuroökonomie – Grundlagen und Grenzen
    Analyse & Kritik 29 (1): 24-37. 2007.
    According to a widespread view, neuroscientific basic research tells us more about the essence of the mind than psychology and may, in the long run, even replace those higher level approaches. Contrary to this view, it is demonstrated that many features can only be observed and explained on a certain level of complexity. This is particularly obvious in the case of neuromarketing and neuroeconomics. In both cases, neuroscientific methods depend on behavioral paradigms. Still, neuroscientific rese…Read more
  •  76
    L'autodétermination. Libre arbitre, Responsabilité et Déterminisme
    Synthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 455-475. 2007.
    L’analyse de la conception commune de la liberté produit deux « critères minimaux » : 1) L’autonomie distingue la liberté de la contrainte ; 2) La responsabilité distingue la liberté du hasard. Interpréter la liberté comme « autodétermination » correspond aux deux critères. L’autodétermination se comprend comme une détermination par les « préférences personnelles », constitutives de la personne. La liberté et le déterminisme sont ainsi compatibles. La question essentielle n’est pas de savoir si …Read more
  •  82
    Self-Determination. Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism
    Synthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 455-475. 2007.
    An analysis of our commonsense concept of freedom yields two “minimal criteria”: Autonomy distinguishes freedom from compulsion; Authorship distinguishes freedom from chance. Translating freedom into “self-determination” can account for both criteria. Self-determination is understood as determination by “personal-preferences” which are constitutive for a person. Freedom and determinism are therefore compatible; the crucial question is not whether an action is determined at all but, rather, wheth…Read more
  •  4
    Dithyrambiker des Untergangs Gnosis und die Ästhetik der Moderne
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 40 (8): 937-961. 1992.
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    The Second-Person Perspective
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (1). 2012.
    Abstract The rise of social neuroscience has brought the second-person perspective back into the focus of philosophy. Although this is not a new topic, it is certainly less well understood than the first-person and third-person perspectives, and it is even unclear whether it can be reduced to one of these perspectives. The present paper argues that no such reduction is possible because the second-person perspective provides a unique kind of access to certain facts, namely other persons' mental s…Read more
  •  12
    Freiheit und Verantwortung. Wille, Determinismus und der Begriff der Person
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 26 (1): 23-44. 2001.