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Love and Free Agency
Scenarios featuring surreptitious psychological manipulation are invoked to motivate the view that love is historical in that how one acquires...
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Introduction
Love has been a topic of interest to philosophy since at least the time of Plato’s Symposium, but with a few notable exceptions, it was unduly...
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Zhuangzi and Personal Autonomy
I apply the Zhuangzi 莊子 to assess the contemporary value of personal autonomy. Focusing on two concepts, wuwei 無為 and you 遊, I clarify the “wandering...
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Libertarian Free Will and the Physical Indeterminism Luck Objection
Libertarian free will is, roughly, the view that agents (or, agent-involving events) cause actions to occur or not occur: Maddy’s decision to get a...
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Indeterministic Choice and Ability
The problem of luck is advanced and defended against libertarian theories of responsibility-enabling ability. An outline of an account of ability is...
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Obligation, Responsibility, and History
I argue that, each of the following, appropriately clarified to yield a noteworthy thesis, is true. (1) Moral obligation can affect moral...
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Ability, Frankfurt Examples, and Obligation
Frankfurt examples invite controversy over whether the pertinent agent in these examples lacks the specific (as opposed to the general) ability to do...
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Introduction
Morality is a fundamental part of our worldview. We view people as acting rightly or wrongly, making the world better or worse, and being virtuous or...
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No Responsibility No Morality
This chapter argues that if individuals are not morally responsible, then there is no morality. By no morality, I mean that there are no...
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Do Compatibilists Need Alternative Possibilities?
In a recent and highly engaging paper, Reid Blackman argues against the principle (‘CAN’) that if determinism is true, then it is not the case that...
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The Obligation Dilemma
I motivate a dilemma to show that nothing can be obligatory for anyone regardless of whether determinism or indeterminism (the falsity of...
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Reflections on Obligation and Blameworthiness
Appealing to Frankfurt examples, Peter French concurs that persons can be morally blameworthy for what they have done even if they could not have...
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If There Were Responsibility, It Wouldn’t Do Much Work (Responsibility and Internalism)
In this chapter, I assume that, contrary to the above argument, individuals are morally responsible and then explore how narrowMoral...
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Luck’s Extended Reach
Something is a matter of luck if it is beyond our control. In this paper, I argue for the primary thesis that luck can undermine varieties of...