Is the burden of proof on incompatibilists?
23 Jul 2008 7:47pm GMT A few people have responded to my 2007 PPR paper, “Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?” co-authored with Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner. But most of the responses have focused on the experimental results that suggested incompatibilism is not as intuitive...
Kearns and Beebee Reply to Smilansky
21 Jul 2008 3:06am GMT In this month's issue of Analysis, there appear two articles replying to Saul Smilansky's piece from last October, "Determinism and Prepunishment: The Radical Nature of Compatibilism", which we discussed on the Garden here. One is by Stephen Kearns and the...
Call for Papers: "Mind, Body, and Free Will"
14 Jul 2008 5:07am GMT The Pacific Division of the Society of Christian Philosophers will be holding their annual conference at UC Riverside on October 30-November 1, with plenary speaker Richard Swinburne. The theme for the conference is "Mind, Body, and Free Will", and submissions...
A Literaure Query
9 Jul 2008 2:58pm GMT I'm a long-time reader, first-time poster - but I had a literature review question and hoped the Garden could help me out. It is often assumed (or taken as obvious) that an undermining condition no longer undermines responsibility if the...
Impossible Experiments
7 Jul 2008 8:02pm GMT These are pretty funny and interesting. Plus, our own Tamler Sommers and Joshua Knobe have contributions. Go have a look! (Thanks to Duane Long for the pointer.)