Thomas Pink
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Pink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pink |
| SIGNATURE | PINK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4594-5772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Authority, the Voluntary, and the Coercion of Belief
This paper discusses legal authority and its relation to belief, including religious belief. Modern jurisprudence is dominated by a model of legal authority as coordinative in function, and as directive of the voluntary – of what is subject to the will and to command. Coercive legal direction, the imposition of legal obligations backed by threats of sanction, is of what we can do or refrain from at will, just in response to a command and as a mea…
Goodness and motivation
To be moral is to be moved to act by reason; and to be moved to act by reason is to be moved by the good. But if reason moves us, what is the nature of its power to move? And what role does goodness play? These questions about rational motivation became a matter of fierce contention in the early modern period. An established theory of how reason moves us – the theory defended by late scholastics such as Suarez – met destructive opposition, from H…
Self-Determination
This book on self-determination and a companion second volume on normativity, The Ethics of Action: Normativity, will examine the significance of action within ethics. How does action and omission—what we do or omit doing—matter in morality? Does action have a special moral importance of its own? Or, as Hume and others have thought, is action of no independent significance in its own right, but simply a sign and expression of what really does mat…
Freedom and action without causation
This article discusses and defends a noncausalist approach to libertarian free agency. It begins with a brief history of accounts of action and purposiveness in the Aristotelian tradition and late medieval philosophy. The traditional picture of action, the article argues, was radically transformed in modern action theory, beginning with Hobbes. All actions came to be viewed as motivated and caused by prior pro-attitudes (e.g., wants or desires) o…
Promising and Obligation 1
Suarez, Hobbes and the scholastic tradition in action theory
The actions of adults have often been thought to involve specially rational or reason-involving motivations – motivations that are not available to mere animals, or even to children and mental defectives. One use of the notion of will is to pick out these rational motivations, or the psychological faculty in which they occur. I want to go further, however, and suggest that the notion of will or voluntas was used, at least in late medieval and ear…
Modern Moral Philosophy
Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe's famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of the contributors do take Anscombe's work as a starting point. Taken together the collection could be seen as a demonstration of the extent to which moral philosophers have since attempted to answer Anscombe's challenge, and to develop an approach to …
The Will and Human Action
Contributors: Richard Sorabji A. W. Price Josef Lossl Carlos Steel M. W. F. Stone Thomas Pink J. B. Schneewind Christopher Janaway Brian O'Shaughnessy
Free Will
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some trivial, and others so consequential that they may change the course of our life. But are these choices reality free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And if our choices are not free, is it legitimate to hold people morally responsible for their actions?" "This …
Action and Self-Determination
We naturally think that we have a capacity for self-determination ; that we can determine for ourselves how we act, so that we are morally responsible for our actions. The paper discusses two very different conceptions of self-determination -freedom, or a power over alternatives, and voluntariness, or a capacity to act as we want or decide. Opposing the arguments of Frankfurt and Davidson, the paper shows that the common sense psychology of human…
Dewey J. Hoitenga, John Calvin and the Will . (Grand Rapids, Michigan
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The Psychology of Freedom
Dewey J. Hoitenga, John Calvin and the Will . (Grand Rapids, Michigan
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The Psychology of Freedom
Action and Self-Determination
We naturally think that we have a capacity for self-determination ; that we can determine for ourselves how we act, so that we are morally responsible for our actions. The paper discusses two very different conceptions of self-determination -freedom, or a power over alternatives, and voluntariness, or a capacity to act as we want or decide. Opposing the arguments of Frankfurt and Davidson, the paper shows that the common sense psychology of human…
Suarez, Hobbes and the scholastic tradition in action theory
The actions of adults have often been thought to involve specially rational or reason-involving motivations – motivations that are not available to mere animals, or even to children and mental defectives. One use of the notion of will is to pick out these rational motivations, or the psychological faculty in which they occur. I want to go further, however, and suggest that the notion of will or voluntas was used, at least in late medieval and ear…
Modern Moral Philosophy
Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe's famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of the contributors do take Anscombe's work as a starting point. Taken together the collection could be seen as a demonstration of the extent to which moral philosophers have since attempted to answer Anscombe's challenge, and to develop an approach to …
The Will and Human Action
Contributors: Richard Sorabji A. W. Price Josef Lossl Carlos Steel M. W. F. Stone Thomas Pink J. B. Schneewind Christopher Janaway Brian O'Shaughnessy
Free Will
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some trivial, and others so consequential that they may change the course of our life. But are these choices reality free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And if our choices are not free, is it legitimate to hold people morally responsible for their actions?" "This …
Promising and Obligation 1
Freedom and action without causation
This article discusses and defends a noncausalist approach to libertarian free agency. It begins with a brief history of accounts of action and purposiveness in the Aristotelian tradition and late medieval philosophy. The traditional picture of action, the article argues, was radically transformed in modern action theory, beginning with Hobbes. All actions came to be viewed as motivated and caused by prior pro-attitudes (e.g., wants or desires) o…
Self-Determination
This book on self-determination and a companion second volume on normativity, The Ethics of Action: Normativity, will examine the significance of action within ethics. How does action and omission—what we do or omit doing—matter in morality? Does action have a special moral importance of its own? Or, as Hume and others have thought, is action of no independent significance in its own right, but simply a sign and expression of what really does mat…
Goodness and motivation
To be moral is to be moved to act by reason; and to be moved to act by reason is to be moved by the good. But if reason moves us, what is the nature of its power to move? And what role does goodness play? These questions about rational motivation became a matter of fierce contention in the early modern period. An established theory of how reason moves us – the theory defended by late scholastics such as Suarez – met destructive opposition, from H…
Authority, the Voluntary, and the Coercion of Belief
This paper discusses legal authority and its relation to belief, including religious belief. Modern jurisprudence is dominated by a model of legal authority as coordinative in function, and as directive of the voluntary – of what is subject to the will and to command. Coercive legal direction, the imposition of legal obligations backed by threats of sanction, is of what we can do or refrain from at will, just in response to a command and as a mea…
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