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John Martin Fischer on Fatalism, Foreknowledge, and Determinism
Abstract In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer speak to John Martin Fischer about three different threats to free will: fatalism, foreknowledge, and determinism. As it happens, these threats all share a common structure, and they call into question whether we ever have the freedom to act otherwise than how we actually act—that ...Taylor W. Cyr, Matthew T. Flummer
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John Martin Fischer'sThe Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control
Legal Theory, 1997John Martin Fischer'sThe Metaphysics of Free Willis devoted to two major projects. First, Fischer defends the thesis that determinism is incompatible with a person's control over alternatives to the actual future. Second, Fischer defends the striking thesis that such control is not necessary for moral responsibility.
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Can’t We All Just be Compatibilists?: A Critical Study of John Martin Fischer’s My Way
The Journal of Ethics, 2008My aim in this study is not to praise Fischer's fine theory of moral responsibility, but to (try to) bury the “semi” in “semicompatibilism”. I think Fischer gives the Consequence Argument (CA) too much credit, and gives himself too little credit. In his book, The Metaphysics of Free Will, Fischer gave the CA as good a statement as it will ever get, and
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Responses to Bernard Berofsky, John Martin Fischer and Galen Strawson
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000openaire +1 more source
John Martin Fischer, Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2015openaire +1 more source