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John Martin Fischer (born December 26, 1952) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and a leading contributor to the philosophy of free will and moral responsibility.
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- Humanities institute john martin fischer
- The biggest questions what is morality professor john martin fischer interview introduction
- Education and career
- Philosophical work
- Books
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The biggest questions what is morality professor john martin fischer interview introduction
Education and career
Fischer received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1982. He began teaching career at Yale University, where he taught for almost a decade before joining the faculty at the University of California, Riverside.
In June 2011, Fischer was elected Vice-President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association and became President of the Pacific Division in 2013.
Philosophical work
While Fischer's work centers primarily on free will and moral responsibility, where he is particularly noted as a proponent of semi-compatibilism (the idea that regardless of whether free will and determinism are compatible, moral responsibility and determinism are), he also has worked on the metaphysics of death and philosophy of religion and currently leads a multi-year research projection on "Immortality" funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
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