Carl Ginet

Carl Ginet is a retired professor of philosophy at Cornell University. His work is primarily in action theory, moral responsibility, free will, and epistemology. He joined the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell in 1971 and retired in 1999. Before Cornell, Ginet was a faculy member of various universities, including Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and University of Rochester.

Selected publications

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