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National Ranking
3230

Overview

Derk Pereboom is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and engages in research primarily within the fields of Arts and Humanities and Neuroscience. Their subfields of study focus notably on Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, and General Health Professions.

The main topics addressed in Pereboom's work include Free Will and Agency, War, Ethics, and Justification, Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations, Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Ethics in medical practice, and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Recent scholarly contributions by Pereboom include the following papers:

  • Undivided Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility, 2021, The Monist
  • Non-free general deterrence, 2021, Journal of Legal Philosophy
  • Review of Why Free Will is Real, Christian List, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, 2022, Criminal Law and Philosophy
  • Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action, 2025, Ethics

Additionally, there is a related paper in the dataset authored by Torin Alter, titled Russellian Monism and Structuralism About Physics, 2021, Erkenntnis.

Pereboom has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Gregg D. Caruso
  • Michael McKenna
  • Torin Alter

Their publications appear regularly in several academic venues, including:

  • The Monist
  • Erkenntnis
  • Journal of Legal Philosophy
  • Criminal Law and Philosophy
  • Ethics

In terms of book publications, Pereboom has contributed works published by Cambridge University Press. These include:

  • Moral Responsibility Reconsidered, 2022
  • Free Will, 2022

Best Publications

  • Living without free will

    Derk Pereboom

  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    Derk Pereboom

  • Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism

    Derk Pereboom

  • Determinism al dente

    Derk Pereboom

  • ROBUST NONREDUCTIVE MATERIALISM

    Derk Pereboom

  • Four Views on Free Will

    John Martin Fischer;Robert Kane;Derk Pereboom;Manuel Vargas

  • The Metaphysics of Irreducibility

    Derek Pereboom;Hilary Kornblith

  • Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction

    Michael McKenna;Derk Pereboom

  • Existentialism: Basic Writings

    Charles B. Guignon;Derk Pereboom

  • Defending hard incompatibilism

    Derk Pereboom

  • Kant on Transcendental Freedom1

    Derk Pereboom

  • Alternative Possibilities and Causal Histories

    Derk Pereboom

  • A Hard‐line Reply to the Multiple‐Case Manipulation Argument

    Derk Pereboom

  • Living Without Free Will: The Case for Hard Incompatibilism

    Derk Pereboom

  • Free Will, Love, And Anger

    Derk Pereboom

  • Free Will Skepticism, Blame, and Obligation

    Derk Pereboom;Justin Coates

  • Is Our Conception of Agent-Causation Coherent?

    Derk Pereboom

  • Stoic Psychotherapy in Descartes and Spinoza

    Derk Pereboom

  • Moral Responsibility Reconsidered

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  • Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    Susan Blackmore;Thomas W. Clark;Mark Hallett;John-Dylan Haynes

  • A Compatibilist Account of the Epistemic Conditions on Rational Deliberation

    Derk Pereboom

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols Cornell University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Neil Levy
Neil Levy Macquarie University

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