26 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
The warrior hero of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita — whose moral crisis at the battle of Kurukshetra provides the occasion for Krishna's philosophical and theological teachings.
New Zealand philosopher who has worked on Hume's is-ought gap, conspiracy theories, and metaethics.
British philosopher who has worked on the normativity of belief, the ethics of promising and commitment, and the relationship between epistemic and practical norms.
Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue on the fall of the devil — explaining how the devil sinned by willing happiness without willing justice, and analyzing the nature of will and sin.
Anselm of Canterbury's final treatise reconciling divine foreknowledge, predestination, and grace with human free will.
Anselm of Canterbury's dialogue on free will (De Libertate Arbitrii) — arguing that free will is the power to preserve justice for its own sake, not the power to sin or not sin.
American philosopher who has worked on agent-relative reasons and the structure of practical rationality.
American philosopher who worked on Davidsonian action theory and interpretation.
American philosopher who has made influential contributions to the philosophy of free will and moral responsibility — developing the valuing theory of free agency.
Finnish philosopher who founded modern deontic logic (the logic of obligation and permission), developed an action-theoretic approach to causation and explanation, and served as Wittgenstein's literary executor.
American philosopher who developed the hierarchical account of free will and the Frankfurt cases against the principle of alternate possibilities — and wrote On Bullshit, the most-read philosophical essay in history.
American logician and philosopher who extended the stit theory of agency to deontic logic, developing a formal theory of obligation based on agency in branching time, and contributed to the logic of defaults and reasons.
Philosopher who has contributed to deontic logic and the analysis of action, permission, and obligation.
American philosopher who became famous for the violinist thought experiment defending abortion rights and for developing the trolley problem into the central test case for deontological ethics.
American philosopher who has developed a systematic coherentist account of knowledge and contributed to the analysis of the Gettier problem and self-trust.
British philosopher who developed the plural subject theory of collective intentionality — 'we-intentions' and 'we-beliefs' are irreducible to aggregates of individual intentions and beliefs.
American philosopher who developed the planning theory of intention — intentions as future-directed plans that coordinate action over time — and has worked on shared intention and agency.
American logician who collaborated with Nuel Belnap and Ming Xu on developing the stit (sees to it that) theory of agency and action.
Chinese-American logician who contributed to the development of the stit (sees to it that) theory of agency and branching-time logic.
American logician who developed branching-time logic, the stit (sees to it that) theory of action, and four-valued logic for reasoning with incomplete or inconsistent information.
Margaret Gilbert's foundational work arguing that genuine social groups are plural subjects — entities formed by joint commitment — and that social facts (obligations, beliefs, intentions) cannot be reduced to facts about individuals.
American philosopher who has worked on conditional obligation, practical reasons, and moral psychology — arguing that emotions play a genuine rational role in moral reasoning.
American philosopher who argued that corporations are genuine moral persons — capable of acting and being held morally responsible — on the basis of their internal decision structures.
Finnish philosopher who developed the we-mode theory of collective intentionality — a systematic account of how individuals can think and act as group members versus as private persons.
Finnish logician who has contributed to deontic logic, epistemic logic, the logic of action, and the philosophy of artifacts.
American philosopher who developed one of the most systematic internalist epistemologies and defended agent causation — the view that persons are irreducible causes distinct from event causation — in the theory of free will.