Research

Book

Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary Debates (editor) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).  [Publisher link]  [OUP blog]

Journal Articles

1. "Must choices and decisions be uncaused by prior events or states of the agent?" forthcoming in Erkenntnis.  [Journal link]

2. "Hume on the temporal priority of cause over effect," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 53 (2023): 81-94.  [Journal link]

3. "Free will and control: a noncausal approach," Synthese, 198 (2021): 10043-10062.  [Journal link]

4. “Moral responsibility for actions and omissions: the asymmetry thesis rejected” (with Yuanyuan Liu), Erkenntnis, 86 (2021): 1225-1237.  [Journal link]

5. "Omissions: the constitution view defended," Erkenntnis, 85 (2020): 739-756.  [Journal link]

6. "Goetz on the noncausal libertarian view of free will," Thought, 5 (2016): 99-107.  [Journal link]

7. "Deterministic Frankfurt cases," Synthese, 191 (2014): 3847-3864.  [Journal link]

8. "The timing objection to the Frankfurt cases," Erkenntnis, 78 (2013): 1011-1023.  [Journal link]

9. "Capes on the W-defense," Philosophia, 41 (2013): 555-566.  [Journal link]

10. "The ethics of marketing to vulnerable populations" (with Trevor Hedberg), Journal of Business Ethics, 116 (2013): 403-413.  [Journal link]

11. "Pereboom on the Frankfurt cases," Philosophical Studies, 153 (2011): 261-272.  [Journal link]

12. "On Mele and Robb's indeterministic Frankfurt-style case" (with Carl Ginet), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80 (2010): 440-446.  [Journal link]

13. "New distinctions, same troubles: a reply to Haji and McKenna," Journal of Philosophy, 102 (2005): 474-482.  [Journal link]

Book Chapters

1. “Non-causal libertarianism,” forthcoming in How Free Are We? Conversations from The Free Will Show, eds. Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer (New York: Oxford University Press).

2. "Is the unexamined life worth living?" in Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching, eds. Steven Cahn, Alexandra Bradner and Andrew Mills (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2018): 123-131.

3. "Free will, libertarianism, and Kane," in Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary Debates, ed. David Palmer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014): 3-11.

4. "Event-causal libertarianism: two objections reconsidered," in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, eds. Ishtiyaque Haji and Justin Caouette (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013): 98-122.

Book Reviews

1. Review of Bernard Berofsky, Nature's Challenge to Free Will, Mind, 123 (2014): 1171-1174.  [Journal link]

2. Review of Richard Swinburne, Mind, Brain, and Free Will, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (2013) URL = <http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/42687-mind-brain-and-free-will/>.