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Dr. Andrew Robert Law
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Andrew Law has been a postdoctoral researcher at the chair of practical philosophy (Prof. Hübner). He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Riverside in 2020, under the direction of Michael Nelson and John Martin Fischer. His dissertation and subsequent work primarily focus on the issues of freedom and moral responsibility, although he also has interests in the philosophy of time, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion.
MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING
- Freedom and Moral Responsibility
- Analytic Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Time
- Philosophy of Religion
- General Philosophy of Science (especially explanation)
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Publications
Edited Volumes
forthcoming
Freedom, Responsibility, and Value: Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer. Co-edited with Taylor W. Cyr and Neal A. Tognazzini. New York: Routledge.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
forthcoming
Incompatibilism and the Garden of Forking Paths. Philosophical Issues.
2022
Lessons from Grandfather (with Ryan Wasserman). Philosophies 7: 1-11.
2022
What Does Indeterminism Offer to Agency? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 100: 371-85.
2021
From the Fixity of the Past to the Fixity of the Independent. Philosophical Studies 178: 1301-14.
2020
The Dependence Response and Explanatory Loops. Faith and Philosophy 37: 294-307.
2020
Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Dependence: A Dialectical Intervention (with Taylor W. Cyr). American Philosophical Quarterly 57: 145-54.
2019
Free Will and Two Local Determinisms (with Neal A. Tognazzini). Erkenntnis 84: 1011-23.
2019
The Puzzle of Hyper-Change. Ratio 32: 1-11.
Reviews
2022
Review of Determinism, Death, and Meaning by Stephen Maitzen. Review of Metaphysics 75: 823-5. 2018
Review of Causation and Free Will by Carolina Sartorio. Analysis 78: 371-3.
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Talks
2023
Comments on Glen Pettigrove’s Anger and Forgiveness. Salzburg University.
2022
Incompatibilism and the Garden of Forking Paths. Institute for Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover.
2020
Comment on Roselli’s “Dispositional Essentialism in the Eternalist Block.” American Philosophical Association, Central Division.
2019
No Counterfactual is Sufficient for Freedom. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
2019
Specific Abilities as Possible Success from General Abilities. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.
2018
From the Fixity of the Past to the Fixity of the Independent. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
2018
From the Fixity of the Past to the Fixity of the Independent. USC-UCLA Graduate Conference in Philosophy, University of Southern California.
2018
Explanations in Frankfurt Cases. Harvard-MIT Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Teaching
2023
- Science and Free Will (MA course)
- Survey of Analytic Metaphysics (MA course)
- Project Seminar (MA course)
- Analytic Philosophy of Religion (BA course)
2022
- Paradoxes of Time Travel (MA course)
- Mortal Questions (BA course)
- Advanced Metaphysics (BA course)
- Philosophy of Science (BA course)
- Critical Thinking (Intro course)
2021
- Analytic Philosophy of Religion (BA course)
- Introduction to Ethics (Intro course)
- Formal Logic (Intro course)
2020
- Introduction to Ethics (Intro course)
2019
- Analytic Metaphysics (BA course)
- Mortal Questions (BA course)
- Analytic Philosophy of Religion (BA course)
2018
- Critical Thinking (Intro course)
- Formal Logic (Intro course)