John Martin Fischer received his BA and MA in philosophy from Stanford University, and his PhD in philosophy from Cornell. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Santa Clara University. He is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosphy, University of California, Riverside, where he holds a UC President's Chair.

John Martin Fischer's new collection of essays, Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value, constitutes a trenchant defence of his well-known compatibilist approach to moral responsibilityEL. Predominantly a collection of detailed responses to recent critics, this is not a book for beginners. It is, however, essential reading for specialists, as well as useful reading for non-specialists seeking a snapshot of the current state of the debate. Fischer's papers are dense with argument and alive with original and productive ideas.

• Contents ; I. Introduction; Deep Control: The Middle Way ; Part One: An Actual-Sequence Approach to Moral Responsibility ; 2. The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories ; 3. Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Frankfurt: A Reply to Vihvelin ; 4. The Importance of Frankfurt-Style Argument ; 5. Blame and Avoidability: a Reply to Otsuka (with Neal A. Tognazzini) ; 6. Indeterminism and Control: An Approach to the Problem of Luck ; Part Two: The Middle Path: Guidance Control ; 7. The Direct Argument: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello ; 8. Conditional Freedom and the Normative Approach to Moral Responsibility ; 9. Judgment-Sensitivity and the Value of Freedom ; 10. Sourcehood: Playing the Cards that Are Dealt You ; 11. Guidance Control ; 12. The Triumph of Tracing (with Neal A. Tognazzini

John Martin Fischer received his BA and MA in philosophy from Stanford University, and his PhD in philosophy from Cornell. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Santa Clara University. He is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosphy, University of California, Riverside, where he holds a UC President's Chair.

John Martin Fischer's new collection of essays, Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value, constitutes a trenchant defence of his well-known compatibilist approach to moral responsibilityEL. Predominantly a collection of detailed responses to recent critics, this is not a book for beginners. It is, however, essential reading for specialists, as well as useful reading for non-specialists seeking a snapshot of the current state of the debate. Fischer's papers are dense with argument and alive with original and productive ideas.

• Contents ; I. Introduction; Deep Control: The Middle Way ; Part One: An Actual-Sequence Approach to Moral Responsibility ; 2. The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories ; 3. Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Frankfurt: A Reply to Vihvelin ; 4. The Importance of Frankfurt-Style Argument ; 5. Blame and Avoidability: a Reply to Otsuka (with Neal A. Tognazzini) ; 6. Indeterminism and Control: An Approach to the Problem of Luck ; Part Two: The Middle Path: Guidance Control ; 7. The Direct Argument: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello ; 8. Conditional Freedom and the Normative Approach to Moral Responsibility ; 9. Judgment-Sensitivity and the Value of Freedom ; 10. Sourcehood: Playing the Cards that Are Dealt You ; 11. Guidance Control ; 12. The Triumph of Tracing (with Neal A. Tognazzini