Derk Pereboom

Email: Derk.Pereboom@uvm.edu
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Professor Pereboom works in free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of religion, and has published articles in each of these areas. In his book on free will and moral responsibility, Living Without Free Will, he argues that we human beings do not have the sort of free will required for praiseworthiness and blameworthiness, but conceiving ourselves as lacking this sort of free will this does not undermine what is important for morality and meaning in life. He is starting at the Sage School in Fall 2007, moving here from the University of Vermont.

Selected Publications

Living Without Free Will , Cambridge University Press, 2001
“Kant on Justification in Transcendental Philosophy,”Synthese (1990)
“The Metaphysics of Irreducibility,” (co-authored with Hilary Kornblith) Philosophical Studies (1991)
“Is Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy Inconsistent?” History of Philosophy Quarterly (1991)
“Bats, Brain Scientists, and the Limitations of Introspection,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1994)
“Stoic Psychotherapy in Descartes and Spinoza,” Faith and Philosophy (1994)
“Determinism Al Dente,” Noûs (1995)
“Self-Understanding in Kant's Transcendental Deduction,” Synthese (1995)
“Conceptual Structure and the Individuation of Content,” Philosophical Perspectives (1995)
“Kant on God, Evil, and Teleology,” Faith and Philosophy (1996)
“Alternative Possibilities and Causal Histories,” Philosophical Perspectives (2000)
“Robust Nonreductive Materialism,” Journal of Philosophy (2002)
“Source Incompatibilism and Alternative Possibilities,” Michael McKenna and David Widerker, eds., Freedom, Responsibility, and Agency: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities, Ashgate, 2003
“Free Will, Evil, and Divine Providence,” God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion, Andrew Chignell and Andrew Dole, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2005
“Defending Hard Incompatibilism,” Midwest Studies (2005)
“Is Our Conception of Agent-Causation Coherent?” forthcoming, Philosophical Topics
“Kant on Transcendental Freedom,” forthcoming, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

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