New papers

We've put a couple of new papers up on the Papers on Agency blog since the last time I made a post here about it, so I thought I would encourage everyone to mosey on over there to check them out. One is by Jeremy Koons and is called "Is Hard Determinism a Form of Compatibilism?" and the other is a joint paper by Neil Levy and Tim Bayne called "Doing Without Deliberation: Automatism, Automaticity, and Moral Accountability" -- go to the Papers blog for more details and links to the papers themselves.

Comments

[Rob]

Although most of its content is derived from his superb book "Nietzsche on Morality," Brian Leiter's recent Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on "Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy" may be worth calling attention to since, among other aspects relevant to this blog, Nietzsche's incompatibilism is in important respects akin to that of Galen Strawson. Here's a link to the most pertinent section: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/#1.2

Also, of possible peripheral interest, philosopher and blogger Jessica Wilson calls attention to a recent study showing "that 30 percent more young Americans now believe their lives are controlled by outside forces rather than by their own achievements as compared to the beliefs of young people in the 1960s and 1970s": http://wilsonhellie.typepad.com/for_the_record/2004/08/generation_what.html