[Vision2020] Campbell's Philosophical Work Direct Online For Free: Was: Joe Campbell promoted to Professor (was: ... Statesman)

[Joe Campbell]

INPC: Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for posting this Ted, and thanks to Ken for the original post about
> the MIT book series.
>
> As Nick said, the book series is the result of the Inland Northwest
> Philosophy Department. Even more so than with the conference, much of the
> credit to the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series goes to Michael
> O'Rourke (UI) and other co-editors. I was a substantive co-author of at
> least three of the introductions to this series.
>
> Most of my peer reviewed articles are difficult to get; the links below are
> to unpublished work and drafts of published work. I hope to soon make my
> work accessible from my website. But trust me, the work is pretty dry and
> not the kind of thing you're likely to read when you have the time to read!
> Mostly, I work in philosophical logic. "Strawson's Free Will Naturalism" is
> about as good as it gets wrt my actual research.
>
> There is a link below to a draft of the first two chapters of my
> forthcoming book, Free Will (Polity Press). I've added some material to
> these chapters, most notably a section on the problem of free will and
> foreknowledge. The first two chapters are a broad introduction to
> traditional and contemporary issues about free will and moral
> responsibility.
>
> Best, Joe
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at frontier.com
>> Thu Feb 24 21:16:13 PST 2011 wrote:
>>
>> http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2011-February/074967.html
>>
>> "Now, if the level of book sales would rise up a bit (or maybe a lot) life
>> would be even better."
>> --------------------------------
>> When you give it away, the book sales might be impacted.
>>
>> Though the University of Idaho website appears to no longer offer
>> Campbell's presentation "Strawson's Free Will Naturalism" referenced
>> in this Vision2020 post from Nov. 2009 (
>> http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2009-November/067055.html ),
>> the WSU website offers Campbell's book on free will (I assume the book
>> Campbell mentioned was forthcoming in the Nov. 2009 post above?)
>> direct for free, as revealed below; also, the two essays as shown
>> below are only a mouse click away.
>>
>> I have read (or rather, mouthed the words while my brain was seized by
>> a state of stunned incomprehension) some of Campbell's work on free
>> will, a very difficult and very important subject, critical to our
>> understanding of religion and law, of placing blame, exacting
>> punishment or gaining salvation, that astonishingly is assumed to be
>> well understood by many people who have never done an in-depth study
>> of the daunting complexities and uncertainties of the concept:
>>
>> "Pereboom on Deliberation":
>>
>>
>> http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/2nd_annual_online_philoso/files/cambells_commentary_on_pereboom.pdf
>> ---------------
>> "Compatibilist Alternatives:"
>>
>> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwCompatCampbell.html
>> ---------------
>> "Free Will" (75 pages long, from Polity Press)
>>
>>
>> http://libarts.wsu.edu/philo/faculty-staff/campbell/Campbell.FreeWill,%20Chs.%201-2.pdf
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>>
>> On 2/24/11, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 24 February 2011 19:26:40 Joe Campbell wrote:
>> >>
>> >> By the way, I found out today that I've been promoted to full
>> Professor.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Congratulations!
>> >
>> > Now, if the level of book sales would rise up a bit (or maybe a lot)
>> life
>> > would be even better. You may be sufficiently polite, or modest, to not
>> > mention
>> > the products with your name on them available from MIT Press, for
>> example,
>> > but
>> > on the occasion of full professorship, I am not averse to mentioning
>> some of
>> > the reasons for the promotion.
>> >
>> > Those who need some good reading material for any time of the year, but
>> > especially handy in winter time when other activities are restricted,
>> may
>> > wish
>> > to check out the titles with Professor Campbell as author from MIT
>> Press:
>> >
>> > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20766
>> >
>> >
>> > Ken
>> >
>> >
>>
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