John Martin Fischer

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John Martin Fischer (born December 26, 1952 ) is an American philosopher.

Fischer studied at Stanford University and completed his habilitation at Cornell University . Fischer teaches at the University of California, Riverside . In 2012, he was vice president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association . From August to September 2011 and in the second half of 2012 he worked in the research group for biophilosophy at the University of Münster as a fellow of the Kolleg research group at the invitation of Michael Quante (* 1962).

Fischer deals with questions of free will and its relation to responsibility . Here he developed the position of "semi-compatibilism", according to which, although humans do not have free will, the concept of responsibility is compatible with a deterministic physical world. Further topics are the metaphysics of death and the meaning of life as well as questions of the philosophy of religion .

Fonts

  • (with John Ravizza) Ethics: Problems and Principles, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992
  • The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control, Wiley-Blackwell 1994
  • (with John Ravizza) Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility, Cambridge University Press 1998
  • My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press 2007
  • Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will, Oxford University Press 2011
  • Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value, Oxford University Press 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by John Martin Fischer at the University of California, Riverside (accessed May 1, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philosophy.ucr.edu
  2. ↑ US philosopher John Martin Fischer on the light and dark sides of eternal life (accessed on May 1, 2013)
  3. ^ John Martin Fischer: The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay on Control, Wiley-Blackwell 1994, 178ff
  4. ↑ Achim Lohmar: Moral responsibility without free will, Klostermann, Frankfurt 2005, 21-22
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, John Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1952