Papers by John Martin Fischer

This is a collection of philosophical papers by John Martin Fischer, categorized quite arbitrarily. Eventually, I hope to make it complete.

Free Will

(1983) "Incompatibilism", Philosophical Studies 43: 127-137.
(1983) "Power Over the Past", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65: 335-350.
(1986) "Power Necessity", Philosophical Topics 14: 77-91.
(1986) "van Inwagen on Free Will", The Philosophical Quarterly 36: 252-260.
(1988) "Freedom and Miracles", Nous 22: 235-252.
(1992) "When the Will Is Free" (with Mark Ravizza), Philosophical Perspectives 6: 423-451.
(1994) "Alternative Possibilities: A Reply to Lamb" (with Paul Hoffman), Journal of Philosophy 91: 321-326.
(1996) "A New Compatibilism", Philosophical Topics 24: 49-66.
(1996) "Free Will and the Modal Principle" (with Mark Ravizza), Philosophical Studies 83: 213-230.
(1999) "Critical Notice of Richard Double's Metaphilosophy and Free Will", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59: 1083-1086.
(2000) "Problems with Actual-Sequence Incompatibilism", The Journal of Ethics 4: 323-328.
(2001) "Critical Notice of Jordan Howard Sobel's Puzzles for the Will", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31: 427-446.
(2005) "Dennett on the Basic Argument", Metaphilosophy 36: 427-435.
(2011) "The Truth About Freedom: A Reply to Merricks" (with Patrick Todd), Philosophical Review 120: 97-115.

Moral Responsibility

(1982) "Responsibility and Control", Journal of Philosophy 79: 24-40.
(1986) "Responsibility and Failure", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 86: 251-270.
(1992) "The Inevitable" (with Mark Ravizza), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70: 388-404.
(1997) "Responsibility, Control, and Omissions", The Journal of Ethics 1: 45-64.
(1998) "Moral Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Free Will: Reply to van Inwagen", The Philosophical Quarterly 191: 215-220.
(1999) "Recent Work on Moral Responsibility", Ethics 110: 93-139.
(1999) "Responsibility and Self-Expression", The Journal of Ethics 3: 277-297.
(1991) "Responsibility and Inevitability" (with Mark Ravizza), Ethics 101: 258-278.
(2000) "Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility" (with Eleonore Stump), Philosophical Perspectives 14: 48-55.
(2000) "Responsibility, History and Manipulation", The Journal of Ethics 4: 385-391.
(2000) "Precis of Responsibility and Control" (with Mark Ravizza), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61: 441-445.
(2000) "Reply to Comments" (with Mark Ravizza), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61: 467-480.
(2000) "Chicken Soup for the Semi-Compatibilist Soul: Replies to Haji and Kane", The Journal of Ethics 4: 404-407.
(2000) "Excerpts from John Martin Fischer's Discussion with Members of the Audience" (with Scott MacDonald, Carl Ginet, Joseph Margolis, Mark Case, Elie Noujain, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom) The Journal of Ethics 4: 408-417.
(2003) "'Ought-Implies-Can', Causal Determinism, and Moral Responsibility", Analysis 63: 244-250.
(2004) "Responsibility and Manipulation", The Journal of Ethics 8: 145-177.
(2005) "Reply: The Free Will Revolution", Philosophical Explorations 8: 145-156.
(2006) "The Free Will Revolution (Continued)", The Journal of Ethics 10: 315-345.
(2006) "The Cards That Are Dealt You", The Journal of Ethics 10: 107-129.
(2006) "Summary of My Way", Philosophical Books 47: 195-197.
(2006) "A Reply to Pereboom, Zimmerman, and Smith", Philosophical Books 47: 235-244.
(2007) "The Importance of Frankfurt-Style Argument", The Philosophical Quarterly 57: 464-471.
(2008) "My Way and Life's Highway: Replies to Steward, Smilansky, and Perry", The Journal of Ethics 12: 167-189.
(2009) "The Truth About Tracing" (with Neal Tognazzini), Nous 43: 531-556.
(2008) "Responsibility and the Kinds of Freedom", The Journal of Ethics 12: 203-228.
(2009) "Ultimacy and Alternative Possibilities", Philosophical Studies 144: 15-20.
(2010) "Responsibility and Autonomy", A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (O'Connor and Sandis, eds.): 309-316.
(2010) "The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories", Philosophical Review 119: 315-336.
(2010) "Precis of My Way", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 229-241.
(2010) "Replies", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 267-278.
(forthcoming) "The Zygote Argument remixed", Analysis.
(forthcoming) "The Physiognomy of Responsibility" (with Neal Tognazzini), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Ethics and Value

(1986) "Causation and Liability" (with Robert Ennis), Philosophy and Public Affairs 15: 33-40.
(1986) "Why Is Death Bad?" (with Anthony Brueckner), Philosophical Studies 50: 213-221.
(1991) "Tooley and the Trolly", Philosophical Studies 62: 93-100.
(1992) "Quinn on Doing and Allowing" (with Mark Ravizza), Philosophical Review 101: 343-352.
(1993) "Quinn on Double Effect: The Problem of "Closeness"" (with Mark Ravizza, David Copp), Ethics 103: 707-725.
(1993) "The Asymemetry of Early Death and Late Birth" (with Anthony Brueckner), Philosophical Studies 71: 327-331.
(1993) "Why Immortality is Not So Bad", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2: 257-270.
(1993) "Insiders and Outsiders", Journal of Social Philosophy 24: 155-160.
(1994) "Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others" (with Mark Ravizza), Journal of Social Philosophy 25: 135-145.
(1995) "Stories", Midwest Studies in Philosophy 20: 1-14.
(1997) "Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of Experience", The Journal of Ethics 1: 341-353.
(1999) "Contribution on Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59: 787-792.
(2000) "As Go the Frankfurt Examples, so Goes Deontic Morality", The Journal of Ethics 4: 361-363.
(2005) "Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of Narrative", Philosophical Papers 34: 379-403.
(2006) "Punishment and Desert: A Reply to Dolinko", Ethics 117: 109-118.
(2006) "Epicureanism about Death and Immortality", The Journal of Ethics 10: 355-381.

Philosophy of Religion

(1983) "Freedom and Foreknowledge", Philosophical Review 92: 67-69.
(1985) "Ockhamism", Philosophical Review 94: 81-100.
(1985) "Scotism", Mind 94: 231-243.
(1986) "Hard-Type Soft Facts", Philosophical Review 95: 591-601.
(1986) "Pike's Ockhamism", Analysis 46: 57-63.
(1991) "Soft Facts and Harsh Realities: Reply to William Craig", Religious Studies 27: 523-539.
(1991) "Snapshot Ockhamism", Philosophical Perspectives 5: 355-371.
(1992) "Recent Work on God and Freedom", American Philosophical Quarterly 29: 91-109.
(1992) "Critical Notice on William Lane Craig's Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom", Religious Studies 28: 269-274.
(1993) "Hard Properties", Faith and Philosophy 10: 161-169.
(2002) "Foreknowledge and Freedom: A Reply to Gale", Faith and Philosophy 10: 161-169.
(2007) "Exploring Evil and Philosophical Failure: A Critical Notice of Peter van Inwagen’s The Problem of Evil" (with Neal Tognazzini), Faith and Philosophy 24: 458-474.
(2008) "Molinism", Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 1: 18-43.
(2009) "More on Molinism", Metaphysics and God (Timpe, ed.): 127-140.
(2009) "Engaging with Pike: God, Freedom, and Time" (with Patrick Todd, Neal Tognazzini), Philosophical Papers 38: 247-270.
(forthcoming) "Foreknowledge, Freedom, and the Fixity of the Past", Philosophia.

Misc.

(1985) "Functionalism and Propositions", Philosophical Studies 48: 295-311.
(2001) "Newcomb's Problem: A Reply to Carlson", Analysis 61: 229-236.

Reviews

(1979) Review of Reason and Action by Bruce Aune", Philosophical Review 88: 453-457.
(1983) Review of Practical Ethics by Peter Singer", Philosophical Review 92: 264-266.
(1984) Review of The Intentionality of Human Action by George Wilson", Philosophical Review 93: 4683-489.
(1985) Review of Obligation and Mutual Respect by Philip Soper", The Yale Law Journal 95: 437-453.
(1988) Review of An Essay on Free Will by Peter van Inwagen", Philosophical Review 97: 401-408.
(1989) Review of Harm to Self by Joel Feinberg", Philosophical Review 98: 129-135.
(1989) Review of The Morality of Freedom by Joseph Raz", Philosophical Review 98: 254-257.
(1990) Review of Freedom from Necessity by Bernard Berofsky", Philosophical Review 99: 649-653.
(1991) Review of An Essay on Moral Responsibility by Michael Zimmerman", Ethics 101: 408-409.
(1991) Review of The Future: An Essay on God, Temporality, and Truth by J.R. Lucas", Philosophical Books 32: 251-253.
(1991) Review of God, Time, and Knowledge by William Hasker", Journal of Philosophy 88: 427-433.
(1992) Review of On Divine Foreknowledge by Luis De Molina (translated by Alfred Freddoso)", Philosophical Review 101: 387-391.
(1992) Review of The Non-Reality of Free Will by Richard Double", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52: 1004-1007.
(1992) Review (with Mark Ravizza) of Responsibility, Freedom, and Reason by Susan Wolf", Ethics 102: 368-389.
(1993) Review of Confrontations with the Reaper by Fred Feldman", Philosophical Review 102: 416-418.
(1993) Review of Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality by William Rowe", Faith and Philosophy 10: 266-271.
(1995) Review of Morality, Mortality by F.M. Kamm", Ethics 105: 933-938.
(1996) Review of Responsibility and Moral Sentiments by R. Jay Wallace", Ethics 106: 850-853.
(1999) Review of Autonomous Agents by Alfred Mele", Nous 33: 133-143.
(2000) Review of The Significance of Free Will by Robert Kane", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60: 141-148.
(2001) Review of Freedom and Responsibility by Hilary Bok", Mind 110: 432-438.
(2001) Review of Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will by Timothy O'Connor", Mind 110: 526-531.
(2003) Review of Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett", Journal of Philosophy 100: 632-637.

Maintained by Andrew M. Bailey. I maintain a similar collection of papers by Peter van Inwagen here.

(Last updated: 7/21/2011)