Carl Ginet is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University

Cornell University

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

Ginet received his BA from Occidental College

Occidental College

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 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 Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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, University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, and University of Rochester

University of Rochester

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Books

• Knowledge, Perception, and Memory (1975), Kluwer Academic Print on Demand. ISBN 9027705747, 9789027705747
• On Action (1990), Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052138818X, 9780521388184

Articles

• "Might We Have No Choice?" in Freedom and Determinism, ed. K. Lehrer (1966).
• "An Incoherence in the Tractatus," Canadian Journal of Philosophy
  Canadian Journal of Philosophy
  The Canadian Journal of Philosophy is a philosophy journal, founded in 1971 by John King-Farlow, Kai Nielsen, T.M. Penelhum, and W.W. Rozeboom...
  
  (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, Acta Philosophica 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
  Philosophical Perspectives
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  10: Metaphysics (1996).
• "Freedom, Responsibility, and Agency," The Journal of Ethics I, pp. 85–98.

External links

• Ginet's Homepage - at Cornell.
• Ginet's profile - at Cornell.
• Knowledge, Perception and Memory at eCommons@Cornell.