John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our
understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the …

Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a
discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for …

Much of the philosophical literature on causation ha on the concept of" actual" causation,
sometimes ca ken" causation. In particular, it is this notion of a sation that many …

Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem, which concerns a disputed
incompatibility between free will and determinism. Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is …

Hatred is often considered the opposite of love, but in many ways is much more complicated.
It also may be considered one of the dominant emotions of our time, as individuals, groups …

Suppose you're given a puzzle, and asked to construct grammatical sentences out of
randomly ordered words. The version you get is laced with terms related to stereotypes of …

Culpability under oppression is puzzling. On the one hand, it seems callous to insist that
someone's being subject to oppression is never relevant to their culpability. On the other …

People who have thought long and hard about the requisites for moral responsibility are still
in deep disagreement. While some feel strongly that determination of choices and actions by …

I defend an instrumentalist account of moral responsibility and adopt Manuel Vargas' idea
that our responsibility practices are justified by their effects. However, whereas Vargas gives …

This paper explores the prospects of employing a functional approach in order to improve
our concept of actual causation. Claims of actual causation play an important role for a …