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...) and Vranas (2007) deny that Jones acts wrongly in NEURO- SURGEON. 16. When I say that the latter person’s moral obligation explains why the former person’s action has the moral status that it has, I mean that the latter person’s moral obligation is a crucial, necessary part of the complete explanation...

... is “elusive.” There certainly are cases of elusive freedom. Beebee describes one: at the age of 12, I may be free to become a surgeon by the age of 30; but by the age of 25, it may no longer be in my power to become a surgeon by the age of 30. Can we maintain that all freedom is elusive in this sense...

.... As a feigned Lewis-style compatibilist, I hold that even if determinism is true, I was probably—that is to say, so far as I know—able, when I was twelve years old, to become a surgeon by the age of thirty. By the time I was, say, twenty-five, I had lost that ability: cir- cumstances were such that I could...

... is rather to invent a new way of looking at language that does not lure us into skeptical worries. He says Putnam’s objection is no less misplaced than a complaint to the effect that the surgeon operating on my daughter treats her as a mere assemblage of tissues. No matter how counterin- tuitive...

...!” True, but this is exactly the sort of thing that brave surgeons do. They operate on their patients for their patients' own sakes, knowing that there is a small chance that they will kill them and a larger chance that they will save their lives. We have reached the point where I have no further argument...

... What is “the right kind of way”? Parfit imagines that a surgeon changes brain states that underlie memory traces. The surgeon con- nects these changes with brain states in another person that underlie the other person’s experience. Causal continuity is supposed to pre...

.... If the devices work as expected on brains, this is strong empirical evidence that there are no new forces that make a physical difference in or around brains. I’m no brain surgeon, but I think that’s the way the evidence goes. But perhaps there’s another kind of downward causation that doesn’t...

... perhaps imagine circumstances in which such a shooting would not cause death — for example, the victim is in a state-of-the-art hospital with the world’s best heart surgeon who is ready to implant an artifi cial heart — such circumstances are very uncommon and seem far-fetched. For some very large...