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On why proximal intentions need to remain snubbed: a reply to Mele
I argue against elements of Alfred Mele’s picture of the nature of intentions and the triggers of intentional actions. Mele (Philosophical Studies...
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Rescuing Mele/Robb-Style Cases
A good part of the philosophical debate on free will and moral responsibility in the last fifty years has revolved around so-called Frankfurt-style...
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Libertarianism, decision-making, and a point of no return
This paper develops a challenge to standard libertarian views that is based on an imagined neuroscientificdiscovery that is incompatible with...
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On a Disappearing Agent Argument: Settling Matters
This paper is a critique of the current version of Derk Pereboom’s “disappearing agent argument” against event-causal libertarianism. Special...
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Graded Abilities and Action Fragility
Recent work by Alfred Mele, Romy Jaster and Chandra Sripada recognizes that abilities come in degrees of fallibility. The rough idea is that...
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On being able to intend
What is it to be able to intend to do something? At the end of her ground-breaking book, Agents’ Abilities, Romy Jaster identifies this question as a...
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Autonomy and Beliefs
In Autonomous Agents, I argued that among the obstacles to autonomous action are facts of certain kinds about an agent’s beliefs. For example,...
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Memory as Skill
The temporal structure for motivating, monitoring, and making sense of agency depends on encoding, maintaining, and accessing the right contents at...
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Intentions and Side Effects
Judging that somebody does something intentionally is a key element in interpersonal relationships. If somebody does something good intentionally,...
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Ethical Interaction Theory
The first chapter asked: “How should you live your life?” The final chapter of the book asks a slightly different, but related, question: “Who should...
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New Philosophical Essays on Love and Loving
New philosophical essays on love by a diverse group of international scholars. Topics include contributions to the ongoing debate on whether love is...
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Moral responsibility and manipulation: on a novel argument against historicism
Taylor Cyr offers a novel argument against, as he puts it, “all versions of historicism” about direct moral responsibility (Philos Stud.
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Self-Deception and Self-Narration: Linklater’s Tape
There is a voluminous literature on the problem of self-deception in both philosophy and psychology. Is it possible to deceive ourselves and if so,...
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‘I knew all along’: making sense of post-self-deception judgments
Individuals deceive themselves about a wide variety of subjects. In fortunate circumstances, where those who manage to leave self-deception embrace...
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Self-deception and selectivity
This article explores the alleged “selectivity problem” for Alfred Mele’s deflationary position on self-deception, a problem that can allegedly be...
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The Dignity of Human Beings as Members of the Biotic Community
Although there are no references to dignity in the founding documents of the United States, assumptions in the Preamble and Declaration of...
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Freedom and Responsibility
Judgments about freedom and moral responsibility have been argued to be essential to how we view ourselves and others. Being free and morally...