American metaphysician who developed the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism about free will and an austere ontology of material beings — only simples and organisms, no tables or chairs.
Consequence Argument: if determinism is true, our acts are consequences of the laws of nature and events before our birth — nothing in the past or laws is up to us — therefore free will is incompatible with determinism. Material constitution: only simples (subatomic particles) and organisms exist; there are no tables, chairs, or artifacts.
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