The highly anticipated sequel to John Martin Fischer's My Way, entitled Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will is now out with OUP. The OUP link is here, though they don't have a picture of the cover yet. The essays in this new collection are part of the continuing development of Fischer's overall systematic views on moral responsibility and related issues, including (as is suggested by the title) the notion that the value of acting so as to be morally responsible is the value of a distinctive kind of self-expression. The book is more proof, if any is needed, both of the impressive scope of Fischer's work and of how interconnected the topic of free will and moral responsibility is with other important areas of philosophy.
Plus, to own My Way without also owning Our Stories would be like owning only Raiders of the Lost Ark without owning The Last Crusade. So go get it!
Geesh John, slow down! Between you and Al, the rest of us hardly have time to read anything else, much less write!
More seriously, congratulations on what I'm sure is another great volume. And, if I may presume to speak for many of the young Gardeners, thank you for being such a wonderful scholar, mentor, and interlocutor.
Posted by: Kevin Timpe | March 31, 2009 at 06:39 PM
Neal,
By the comparison at the end, do you mean to say that John looks visible older in Our Stories than in My Way? And is there some other book in between these two that, like Temple of Doom, everyone wishes wasn't made?
(Just kidding John!)
Posted by: Kevin Timpe | March 31, 2009 at 07:21 PM
Kevin,
John's secret third book is called "Highway (Kicking Libertarians and Skeptics To It): The Temple of John." In it, he rips out the pulsing hearts of non-compatibilists. These chapters were so graphic, and devastating, they inspired the new PG-13 (Philosophical Gutting - No Corrupting Youth Below 13).
Posted by: Kip | March 31, 2009 at 08:32 PM
I'm worried about whether that metaphor entails his next work will be his Crystal Skull.
Posted by: Clark Goble | April 03, 2009 at 06:40 PM
John,
Congratulations! It's great to see these wonderful papers put together in a single volume!
Posted by: Gustavo Llarull | April 10, 2009 at 01:17 PM