Freedom, Responsibility, and Value

Taylor W. Cyr is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Samford University. His main interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics, especially issues surrounding free will and moral responsibility. He has published articles in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies, among other journals. Andrew Law is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Leibniz University Hannover. His primary research is on the metaphysics of free will, although he has interests in philosophy of time and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Philosophical Studies, among other journals. Neal A. Tognazzini is a Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University, specializing in moral psychology and the metaphysics of free will. He is co-editor of Blame: Its Nature and Norms (Oxford, 2013), and his work has appeared in Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Thought, among other venues.

Introduction Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law, and Neal A. Tognazzini Part 1: Freedom and Responsibility 1. A Simple but Powerful Idea: Actual Sequences and Free Will Carolina Sartorio 2. Responsibility and Reasons-Responsiveness Dana Kay Nelkin and Manuel Vargas 3. Fischer on Epistemic and Freedom Requirements for Moral Responsibility Alfred R. Mele 4. Meaning in the Middle: Responsibility, Narrative, and Agential History Meghan Griffith 5. Retributivism and the Relevance of Metaphysics to Practice Derk Pereboom 6. Control Over and Responsibility for Belief Matthias P. Steup 7. Losing Free Will? Three Thought Experiments Kadri Vihvelin 8. Accounting for Failure Randolph Clarke 9. The Peculiar Moral Position of Psychopaths Gary Watson Part 2: Interlude 10. The Resilience of Moral Responsibility John Martin Fischer Part 3: Value 11. The “Range” Argument from Evil Peter van Inwagen 12. Is Temporal Bias Key to Justifying Fischer’s Asymmetry? Travis Timmerman 13. Music, Death, and Grief Martha C. Nussbaum