...David Shoemaker This essay attempts to provide and defend what may be the first actual argument in support of P. F. Strawson's merely stated vision of a response-dependent theory of moral responsibility. It does so by way of an extended analogy with the funny. In part 1, it makes the easier...

..., and my response to it, will depend in the ordinary way on whatever epistemologists conclude it depends on. 43 Second, the question of how to fit on/off belief into the framework of credence was already a vexed question, and it is simply an interesting result that they have different roles...

...Rebecca Copenhaver Philip de Bary, Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist Response. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xv, 203. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS References Berkeley, George. 1948–1957...

...Alison McIntyre RESPONSIBILITY AND CONTROL: A THEORY OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. By John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, S. J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 277. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REKEWS The Philosophical Review...

...Matthew Talbert Herbert Fingarette, Mapping Responsibility: Explorations in Mind, Law, Myth, and Culture . Chicago: Open Court, 2004. vii + 174 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Jaegwon Kim, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough. Princeton, NJ...

...Susan Sauvé Meyer Echeñique Javier Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . viii +209 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Does Aristotle have a conception of moral responsibility? A prominent feature of his treatment...

...Paul Russell McKenna Michael , Conversation and Responsibility . New York: Oxford University Press , 2012 , 272 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 Michael McKenna's Conversation and Responsibility is an ambitious and impressive statement of a new theory of moral...

... 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...

...Stephanie Collins Pasternak Avia , Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoings? : Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 249 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Anyone who has lived abroad knows the frustration...

...Kimberly Kessler Ferzan [email protected] Brink David O. , Fair Opportunity and Responsibility . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 2021 . 426 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Fair Opportunity and Responsibility sets forth an overarching normative vision...

...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...

.... Journal of Philosophy 91 : 650 -68. ____. 2000 . Feeling Crazy: Self-Worth and the Social Character of Responsibility. In Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self , ed. C. MacKenzie and N. Stoljar. New York: Oxford University Press. Bratman, Michael...

...Matthew H. Kramer Responsibility in Law and Morality. Oxford and Portland, Ore.: Hart Publishing, 2002. Pp. xii, 303. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 1 (January 2004) Peter Cane, Responsibility...

...Carolina Sartorio Some philosophers have claimed that causally determined agents are not morally responsible because they cannot make a difference in the world. A recent response by philosophers who defend the compatibility of determinism and responsibility has been to concede that causally...

..., that conflicts with the principle of Countable Additivity. The essay then argues that the most plausible response to the conflict between these principles is to maintain that they are both valid and that, when an agent cannot satisfy them both, he or she is faced with a rational dilemma. The essay is divided...

...John Martin Fischer The Frankfurt cases have been thought by some philosophers to show that moral responsibility does not require genuine metaphysical access to alternative possibilities. But various philosophers have rejected this putative “lesson” of the cases, and they have put forward...

...Michael McKenna Peter van Inwagen contends that nonresponsibility transfers across deterministic relations. Suppose it does. If the facts of the past and the laws of nature entail every truth about what one does, and no one is even in part morally responsible for the past and the laws, then no one...

... Reflection, and second, should the counterexamples to Reflection make us doubt the Dutch book for conditionalization? In response to the first question, this essay formulates a new “Qualified Reflection” principle, which states that an agent should obey Reflection only if he or she is certain that he or she...

... foreknowledge. The arguments are exactly parallel in certain crucial respects. At any rate, investigating the issues surrounding prepunishment can help to throw into relief the various different strategies of response to the foreknowledge argument and can bring out what their costs and commitments really...

... thoughts composed of senses. The Fregean view faces a challenge of compositionality here. This essay describes the challenge and offers a response on the Fregean's behalf. This helps to clarify the sense in which the Fregean need not, in the end, appeal to lexical ambiguity in analyzing the de re / de...