Patrick Todd is a contemporary analytic philosopher whose work centers on free will, moral responsibility, and the metaphysics of time and modality. He is known for defending the view that future contingent statements are uniformly false, developed in his monograph on the open future. His research consistently argues that debates about free will cannot be cleanly separated from broader metaphysical and ethical commitments.
Authored The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Developed a systematic defense of open futurism grounded in the logic of future-contingent propositions
Argued for deep entanglement between free will debates and commitments in metaphysics and normative ethics
Contributed to literature on sourcehood, leeway incompatibilism, and the relationship between free will and moral responsibility
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