Articles by Jonathan Phillips

Ram Neta stars in this short video about the Aristotelian conception of freedom and morality, along side a ship captain, a drowning wife and Sleater-Kinney.

Broadly, this paper is concerned with the folk concept of freedom. In the paper, I consider non-philosophical intuitions about freedom by examining what ordinary people think about several interesting cases in which an agent’s freedom is restricted. I also compare the role which value is given in the folk theory to two other well known theories of freedom, one promoted by T.H. Green and the other by Isaiah Berlin. The result is not only philosophically interesting, but informative about how ordinary philosophical conceptions function.

I was originally led to write this paper by a combined interest in the concept of freedom and the influence of morality on intuitions.

I would love to hear your comments so please join in the discussion.

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Paper:Jonathan Phillips. Freedom: Morality and Folk Intuitions

Comments:Matt Zwolinski. Comments on Phillips’ Folk Conception of Freedom

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