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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Instead, those arguments are built on an uncontroversial understanding of the idea that truth depends on the world. In the final section of the article, those arguments are extended to show that foreknowledge of an action does not threaten that action's freedom. Cornell University 2009 Adams...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 619–639.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Patrick Todd The most promising way of responding to arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom (in one way or another) invokes a claim about the order of explanation: God knew (or believed) that you would perform a given action because you would, in fact, perform...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 253–271.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Elizabeth Anderson Cornell University 2005 Critical Notice of Amartya Sen, Rationality and Freedom Allais, Maurice. 1953 . Le Compartement de l'Homme Rationnel Devant le Risque: Critique Des Postulats et Axiomes de l'Ecole Américaine. Econometrica 21 : 503 -46...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 558–561.
Published: 01 October 2017
... for moral responsibility in humans. Her libertarianism is a principled philosophical response to a very general problem about freedom. I want to close with a question about the principled response. In the cetology chapter of Moby-Dick , Ishmael famously defines a whale as “a spouting fish...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 519–523.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... , The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2016 . 255 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 C. P. Ragland's The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes is an insightful, impeccably scholarly engagement with some serious metaphysical questions...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 97–115.
Published: 01 January 2011
...John Martin Fischer; Patrick Todd In his recent essay in the Philosophical Review , “Truth and Freedom,” Trenton Merricks contends (among other things) that the basic argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and human freedom is question-begging. He relies on a “truism” to the effect...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 134–137.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Robert L. Perkins Michelle Kosch, Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 236 pp. © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Peter Hylton, Quine. New York: Routledge, 2007. x þ 405 pp...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (4): 567–586.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Trenton Merricks The bulk of the essay “Truth and Freedom” ( Philosophical Review 118 [2009]: 29–57) opposes fatalism, which is the claim that if there is a true proposition to the effect that an action A will occur, then A will not be free. But that essay also offers a new way to reconcile divine...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 179–207.
Published: 01 April 2012
... are determined to do. The conclusion of this much-discussed argument is that the freedom to do otherwise is incompatible with determinism. In order to break a stalemate between incompatibilists and compatibilists in the debate over (FP), this article presents a new Action-Type Argument for (FP). The aim...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Benjamin Vilhauer [email protected] Allison Henry , Kant’s Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 xxiii + 531 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 This extensive text (517 pages of full...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (2): 226–230.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . xiv + 319 pp. [email protected] ...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 507–510.
Published: 01 October 2022
... intermittently, but for two passages in Plotinus that might suggest otherwise, see Enn . 1.4.10.15–26 and 13.6–13. Philosophers have often thought that freedom involves the ability to do otherwise, and many have taken this ability to be a prerequisite for responsibility. Others have thought that being...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 385–449.
Published: 01 July 2021
... is that Kant’s idealist argument from incongruent counterparts rests essentially on his theory of freedom. The surprising result sheds new light on deep and overlooked links among the pillars of transcendental idealism, pointing the way to a comprehensive and unified reading of Kant’s system of idealist...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 592–595.
Published: 01 October 2000
...R. Jay Wallace Cornell University 2000 FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY. By Hilary Bok. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 222. BOOK REVEWS for its literary style. There are extremely long dry stretches in its 237 pages, during which the thirsty...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 632–635.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Carl Ginet Cornell University 2000 THE WORKS OF AGENCY: ON HUMAN ACTION, WILL, AND FREEDOM. By Hugh J. McCann. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 238. BOOK REVIEWS because of the way we are. This is somehow true even for DOORKNOB...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 437–440.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Sarah Williams Holtman A THIRD CONCEPT OF LIBERTY: JUDGMENT AND FREEDOM IN KANT AND ADAM SMITH. By Samuel Fleischacker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 300. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 3 uuly 2001) A THIRD CONCEPT OF L...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 606–608.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Robert M. Wallace HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM. By Paul Franco. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 391. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS of Kant. According to Kant’s conception of the social contract, a just law is defined as a law...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 323–326.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Terry Pinkard Frederick Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 337. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS who held that it was only on account of such systematic unity...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 405–409.
Published: 01 July 2003
...Susan Sauvé Meyer Cornell University 2003 Suzanne Bobzien, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 441. BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (July 2003...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 411–416.
Published: 01 July 2004
... to Break the Laws?” Theoria 47 : 113 -21. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 3 (July 2004) DISCUSSION Elusive Freedom? A Reply to Helen Beebee Michael Huemer In “Van Inwagen’s Consequence Argument” (2000), I offered...