David Widerker is a contemporary analytic philosopher working primarily on free will, moral responsibility, and the metaphysics of agency. He is best known for his incompatibilist responses to Frankfurt-style counterexamples and his sustained defense of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities. His work argues that debates over free will cannot be disentangled from deeper commitments in metaphysics and normative ethics.
Developed influential incompatibilist critiques of Frankfurt-style counterexamples to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
Defended the thesis that free will debates are inextricably bound to metaphysical and ethical commitments
Contributed to the literature on libertarian accounts of moral responsibility and agentive control
Co-edited major anthologies on moral responsibility bringing together compatibilist and incompatibilist perspectives
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