Carl Ginet

Carl Ginet (born 1932) is an American philosopher and

Ginet received his BA from Occidental College in 1954, and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1960 with a dissertation titled "Reasons, Causes, and Free Will".^[1] 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, University of Michigan, and University of Rochester.^[2]

Ginet is married to Cornell University Professor Emerita Sally McConnell-Ginet.^[3]

Selected publications

Books

• Knowledge, Perception, and Memory (1975), Kluwer Academic Print on Demand.
  ISBN 978-90-277-0574-7
• On Action (1990), Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN 0-521-38818-X
  , 9780521388184

• "Might We Have No Choice?" in Freedom and Determinism, ed. K. Lehrer (1966).
• "An Incoherence in the Tractatus," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (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 10: Metaphysics (1996).
• "Freedom, Responsibility, and Agency," The Journal of Ethics I, pp. 85–98.

References

External links

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