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John M. Fischer

Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1982

Olmsted 2316
john.fischer@ucr.edu
(951) 827-5042

 

Research Interests:
  • Metaphysics

  • Moral Philosophy

  • Philosophy of Mind (Free Will)

  • Philosophy of Religion
Sample Publications:

Books and Collections:
  • My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2006

  • Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (with M. Ravizza), Cambridge University Press, 1998

  • The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control, Blackwell, 1994

  • The Metaphysics of Death (ed.), Stanford University Press, 1993

  • Perspectives on Moral Responsibility (coed., with M. Ravizza), Cornell University Press, 1993

  • Ethics: Problems and Principles (coed., with M. Ravizza), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991

  • God, Foreknowledge and Freedom (ed.), Stanford University Press, 1989

  • Moral Responsibility (ed.), Cornell University Press, 1986
Recent Articles:
  • "Newcomb's Problem: A Reply to Carlson," Analysis, 2001

  • "Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity" (with D. Speak), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 2000

  • "Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility" (with E. Stump), Philosophical Perspectives, 2000

  • "Responsibility and Self-Expression," Journal of Ethics, 1999

  • "Recent Work on Moral Responsibility," Ethics, 1999

  • "Being Born Earlier" (with A. Brueckner), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1998

  • "A New Compatibilism," Philosophical Topics, 1998

  • "Death, Badness, and the Impossibility of Experience," Journal of Ethics, 1997

  • "Responsibility, Control, and Omissions," Journal of Ethics, 1997

  • "Stories," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1996

  • "Free Will and the Modal Principle" (with M. Ravizza), Philosophical Studies, 1996

  • "Libertarianism and Avoidability," Faith and Philosophy, 1995

  • "Responsibility and History" (with M. Ravizza), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1994

  • "Why Immortality is Not So Bad," International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 1994

  • "Alternative Possibilities" (with P. Hoffman), Journal of Philosophy, 1994

  • "Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others" (with M. Ravizza), Journal of Social Philosophy, 1994

  • "Insiders and Outsiders," Journal of Social Philosophy, 1993

  • "Quinn on Double Effect: The Problem of 'Closeness'" (with M. Ravizza and D. Copp), Ethics, 1993

  • "Death's Badness" (with A. Brueckner), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1993

  • "The Asymmetry of Early Death and Late Birth" (with A. Brueckner), Philosophical Studies, 1993

  • "The Inevitable" (with M. Ravizza), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1993

  • "Hard Properties," Faith and Philosophy, 1993

  • "Quinn on Doing and Allowing" (with M. Ravizza), Philosophical Review, 1992

  • "Recent Work on God and Freedom," American Philosophical Quarterly, 1992

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