...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...

... and neuroscience. Others con- centrate on action, responsibility, and the role of practical reason. Still others have followed tradition and focused on metaphysical issues, most especially the mind–body problem and prospects for reduction of the mental to the physical. It would be hard to think...

...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...

...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...

...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...

.... 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...

...R. Jay Wallace FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY. By Hilary Bok. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 222. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVEWS for its literary style. There are extremely long dry stretches in its 237 pages, during which the thirsty...

...Christopher Isaac Noble cinoble@syr.edu Coope Ursula , Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . 288 pp. © 2022 by Cornell University 2022 What does it mean to be free, and what are the metaphysical conditions...

...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...

... will show that it can be rejected, and rejected precisely in the case of peer disagreement about important matters. This opens up a promising response to the problem of peer disagreement. Peer disagreement does give you evidence against the claim which is the object of disagreement, but you should...

...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...

...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...

... premise in the incompatibilist's argument and the Ockhamist response. It sketches some potential links between the issues here and recent work on ontological dependence, and it connects the issues raised by Merricks to important work that has appeared in (among other places) the Philosophical Review . ©...

... physical chance. (ii) Counterfactual conditionals can be defined by appeal to a relation of closeness between possible worlds. The essay tries to show that absurd consequences ensue if either of these assumptions is combined with antihaecceitism. Then it considers a natural response by the antihaecceitist...

... 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...