Eddy Nahmias

Biographic Data

ID5911278
NAMEEddy Nahmias
GIVEN NAMESEddy
FAMILY NAMENahmias
SIGNATURENAHMIAS E
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia State University
ORCID0000-0003-0987-0160
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS30
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Why the manipulation argument fails

    Open AccessOisín Deery, Eddy NahmiasARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2023

  • The free will inventory

    Open AccessThomas Nadelhoffer, Jason Shepard et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2014

  • Intuitions about Free Will, Determinism, and Bypassing

    Eddy NahmiasCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of free will2012

    This article draws on experimental studies of folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility conducted in the past decade. It questions the claims of many philosophers that most ordinary persons have incompatibilist intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. In the studies, various deterministic scenarios are presented to undergraduate students who have not studied philosophy. In these scenarios, studies found that, although s…

  • Explaining Away Incompatibilist Intuitions

    Open AccessDylan Murray, Eddy NahmiasARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2012Cited by: 8References: 6

    The debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists depends in large part on what ordinary people mean by 'free will', a matter on which previous experimental philosophy studies have yielded conflicting results. In Nahmias, Morris, Nadelhoffer, and Turner (2005, 2006), most participants judged that agents in deterministic scenarios could have free will and be morally responsible. Nichols and Knobe (2007), though, suggest that these apparent co…

  • Temperament and intuition

    Open AccessThomas Nadelhoffer, Trevor Kvaran et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2009

  • Folk Fears about Freedom and Responsibility

    Eddy NahmiasARTICLEJournal of Cognition and Culture2006Cited by: 2References: 4

    will and moral responsibility was designed primarily to test a common claim in the philosophical debates: that ordinary people see an obvious conflict between determinism and both free will and moral responsibility, and hence, the burden is on compatibilists to motivate their theory in a way that explains away or overcomes this intuitive support for incompatibilism. The evidence, if any, offered by philosophers to support the claim that incompati…

  • Is Incompatibilism Intuitive

    Open AccessEddy Nahmias, Stephen G Morris et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2006Cited by: 20References: 6

    Incompatibilists believe free will is impossible if determinism is true, and they often claim that this view is supported by ordinary intuitions. We challenge the claim that incompatibilism is intuitive to most laypersons and discuss the significance of this challenge to the free will debate. After explaining why incompatibilists should want their view to accord with pretheoretical intuitions, we suggest that determining whether incompatibilism i…

  • Surveying Freedom

    Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Psychology2005

    Philosophers working in the nascent field of ‘experimental philosophy’ have begun using methods borrowed from psychology to collect data about folk intuitions concerning debates ranging from action theory to ethics to epistemology. In this paper we present the results of our attempts to apply this approach to the free will debate, in which philosophers on opposing sides claim that their view best accounts for and accords with folk intuitions. Aft…

  • Agency, authorship, and illusion

    Open AccessEddy NahmiasARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2005