Carl Ginet (born 1932) is an American philosopher and

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. His work is primarily in action theory, moral responsibility, free will, and

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. Ginet received his BA from Occidental College in 1954, and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1960 with a dissertation entitled "Reasons, Causes, and Free Will". He joined the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell in 1971 and retired in 1999. Before Cornell, Ginet was a faculty member of various universities, including

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, and

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.Ginet's profile
at Cornell. Ginet is married to Cornell University Professor Emerita

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Selected publications

Books

* ''Knowledge, Perception, and Memory'' (1975), Kluwer Academic Print on Demand. , * ''On Action'' (1990), Cambridge University Press. , 9780521388184

Articles

* "Might We Have No Choice?" in ''Freedom and Determinism'', ed. K. Lehrer (1966). * "An Incoherence in the Tractatus," '' Canadian Journal of Philosophy'' (1973). * "Wittgenstein's Claim that there Could Not Be Just One Occasion of Obeying a Rule," in ''Essays on Wittgenstein in Honour of G.H.von Wright'',

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Fennica (1976). * "Performativity," ''Linguistics and Philosophy'' (1979). * "Contra Reliabilism," ''The Monist'' (1985). * "The Fourth Condition," in ''Philosophical Analysis'', ed. D.F. Austin (1988). * "Dispositionalism: A Defense Against Kripke's Criticisms," ''Midwest Studies in Philosophy'', Vol. XVII (1992). * "In Defense of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities: Why I Don't Find Frankfurt's Argument Convincing," in Tomberlin ed., '' Philosophical Perspectives'' 10: Metaphysics (1996). * "Freedom, Responsibility, and Agency," ''The Journal of Ethics'' I, pp. 85–98.

References

External links

Ginet's Homepage
- at Cornell.

- at Cornell.
Knowledge, Perception and Memory
at eCommons@Cornell. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ginet, Carl Cornell University faculty Ohio State University faculty 1932 births Living people University of Michigan faculty