David Palmer
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Knoxville, TN 37996-0480
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David Palmer
Associate Professor & Associate Head
Education
My Ph.D. is from the University of Texas. Prior to this, I studied at King’s College London and at the University of York.
Research
I specialize in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of action. Within these areas, my main research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, and the nature of action and agency more generally.
Publications
- “Must choices and decisions be uncaused by prior events or states of the agent?” Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
- “Hume on the temporal priority of cause over effect,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 53 (2023): 81-94.
- “Free will and control: a noncausal approach,” Synthese, 198 (2021): 10043-10062.
- “Moral responsibility for actions and omissions: the asymmetry thesis rejected” (with Yuanyuan Liu), Erkenntnis, 86 (2021): 1225-1237.
- “Omissions: the constitution view defended,” Erkenntnis, 85 (2020): 793-756.
- “Goetz on the noncausal libertarian view of free will,” Thought, 5 (2016): 99-107.
- Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary Debates (editor) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- “Deterministic Frankfurt cases,” Synthese, 191 (2014): 3847-3864.
- “The timing objection to the Frankfurt cases,” Erkenntnis, 78 (2013): 1011-1023.
- “Capes on the W-defense,” Philosophia, 41 (2013): 555-566.
- “The ethics of marketing to vulnerable populations,” (with Trevor Hedberg), Journal of Business Ethics, 116 (2013): 403-413.
- “Pereboom on the Frankfurt cases,” Philosophical Studies, 153 (2011): 261-272.
- “On Mele and Robb’s indeterministic Frankfurt-style case,” (with Carl Ginet), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80 (2010): 440-446.
- “New distinctions, same troubles: a reply to Haji and McKenna,” Journal of Philosophy, 102 (2005): 474-482.