Bernard Berofsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Berofsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Berofsky |
| SIGNATURE | BEROFSKY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Compatibilism Without Frankfurt
This article considers recent debates about the adequacy of conditional analyses of freedom and classical compatibilism. It begins with a discussion of objections to conditional or hypothetical analyses of freedom that began to surface in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses four such objections to conditional analyses, some of which can be successfully rebutted by classical compatibilists, but several of which present serious problems. These proble…
Ultimate Responsibility in a Deterministic World
Life is getting difficult for us compatibilists. You won't find respectable ones relying on conditional analyses anymore. And the hierarchical version's dismissive attitude towards worries about the character of origins invites the rebuttal of incompatibilists like Robert Kane who concede the desirability of the compatibilist freedoms stressed by hierarchical theorists, yet wish as well to accommodate our deep-seated yearning to be the ultimate s…
Through Thick and Thin
Since interest in autonomy, for most thinkers, is grounded in a desire to know the extent to which we limited creatures can approximate this ideal, a balance must be struck between the principle that an autonomous agent must be free to adopt or reject just about any value, principle, or end and the facts of human existence that must temper our desire to honor the principle. For example, since adherence to rational principles is in general the mos…
Liberation from Self
Liberation from Self
Liberation from Self
This is a detailed, sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of autonomy. Moreover it argues for a quite different conception of autonomy from that found in the philosophical literature. Professor Berofsky claims that the idea of autonomy originating in the self is a seductive but ultimately illusory one. The only serious way of approaching the subject is to pay due attention to psychology, and to view autonomy as the liberation from the disabli…
Liberation from self
This is the most detailed, sophisticated, and comprehensive treatment of autonomy currently available. Moreover it argues for a quite different conception of autonomy from that found in the philosophical literature. Professor Berofsky claims that the idea of autonomy as origination in the self is a seductive but ultimately illusory one. The only serious way of approaching the subject is to pay due attention to psychology and its emphasis on liber…
Freedom from Necessity
Can scientific laws postulate objectively necessary connections between an action and its causal antecendents? Professor Berofsky tackles the classic free will problem
Freedom from Necessity
Determinism
Determinism
Book Reviews Get access Determinism. By Bernard Berofsky. ( Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 330. Price £4.75) Sarah Waterlow Sarah Waterlow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 92, July 1973, Pages 276–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218014 Published: 01 July 1973
Ultimate Responsibility in a Deterministic World
Life is getting difficult for us compatibilists. You won't find respectable ones relying on conditional analyses anymore. And the hierarchical version's dismissive attitude towards worries about the character of origins invites the rebuttal of incompatibilists like Robert Kane who concede the desirability of the compatibilist freedoms stressed by hierarchical theorists, yet wish as well to accommodate our deep-seated yearning to be the ultimate s…
Determinism
Determinism
Book Reviews Get access Determinism. By Bernard Berofsky. ( Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xi + 330. Price £4.75) Sarah Waterlow Sarah Waterlow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 92, July 1973, Pages 276–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218014 Published: 01 July 1973
Freedom from Necessity
Freedom from Necessity
Can scientific laws postulate objectively necessary connections between an action and its causal antecendents? Professor Berofsky tackles the classic free will problem
Liberation from Self
This is a detailed, sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of autonomy. Moreover it argues for a quite different conception of autonomy from that found in the philosophical literature. Professor Berofsky claims that the idea of autonomy originating in the self is a seductive but ultimately illusory one. The only serious way of approaching the subject is to pay due attention to psychology, and to view autonomy as the liberation from the disabli…
Liberation from self
This is the most detailed, sophisticated, and comprehensive treatment of autonomy currently available. Moreover it argues for a quite different conception of autonomy from that found in the philosophical literature. Professor Berofsky claims that the idea of autonomy as origination in the self is a seductive but ultimately illusory one. The only serious way of approaching the subject is to pay due attention to psychology and its emphasis on liber…
Liberation from Self
Through Thick and Thin
Since interest in autonomy, for most thinkers, is grounded in a desire to know the extent to which we limited creatures can approximate this ideal, a balance must be struck between the principle that an autonomous agent must be free to adopt or reject just about any value, principle, or end and the facts of human existence that must temper our desire to honor the principle. For example, since adherence to rational principles is in general the mos…
Liberation from Self
Ultimate Responsibility in a Deterministic World
Life is getting difficult for us compatibilists. You won't find respectable ones relying on conditional analyses anymore. And the hierarchical version's dismissive attitude towards worries about the character of origins invites the rebuttal of incompatibilists like Robert Kane who concede the desirability of the compatibilist freedoms stressed by hierarchical theorists, yet wish as well to accommodate our deep-seated yearning to be the ultimate s…
Compatibilism Without Frankfurt
This article considers recent debates about the adequacy of conditional analyses of freedom and classical compatibilism. It begins with a discussion of objections to conditional or hypothetical analyses of freedom that began to surface in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses four such objections to conditional analyses, some of which can be successfully rebutted by classical compatibilists, but several of which present serious problems. These proble…
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Ethics in medical practice (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Autonomy (4 works) · Contemporary philosophy (4 works) · Free Will and Agency (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)