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July 18, 2006

Summer Reading

I highly recommend the outstanding collection of essays by Andrews Reath, *Agency and Autonomy In Kant's Moral Theory* (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006). I think these essays will be of wide interest to readers of the Garden of Forking Paths, even though the terms "Frankfurt-style Counterexamples," "Source Incompatibilism," "Free Will Skepticism," and so forth do not appear (or at least, I don't think they do).

Congratulations to Andy Reath for a superb volume! One of the things I like about Reath's essays is that they are genuinely engaging with Kant's texts while at the same time achieving a surprising (some might say miraculous) level of clarity. I'm not fully a compatibilist about fidelity to Kant's texts and clarity, but I'm a semicompatibilist, especially in the context of Reath's essays.

Posted by John Fischer on July 18, 2006 at 06:23 PM |

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I'm glad to see that this volume is now out. I'm certainly looking forward to working through it. I hope you will pass my congrats on to Andy and let him know that I have some Kant questions coming his way soon.

Posted by: Dan Speak | July 19, 2006 at 12:38 AM

I highly recommend Sam Harris' "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason," as well as Daniel Dennett's "Breaking the Spell: Religion as A Natural Phenomenon"

Posted by: Matt | July 19, 2006 at 08:00 PM

Why, exactly, do you recommend it? What's the connection to phil action, agency, etc.?

Posted by: Manuel | July 20, 2006 at 08:40 PM

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