Professor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1248A Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-3165
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: ihaji@ucalgary.ca

Education

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A., Simon Fraser University
B.A., Simon Fraser University

Areas of Interest

Ethical Theory
Action theory
Philosophical Psychology
Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Selected Recent Publications

Books

Freedom and Value: Freedom's Influence on Welfare and Wordly Value, Springer, 2009. 

Incompatibilism's Allure: Principal Arguments for Incompatibilism, Broadview Press, 2009.

Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education, New York: Routledge, 2008 [co-authored with Stefaan Cuypers].

Deontic Morality and Control, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Moral Appraisability: Puzzles, Proposals, and Perplexities, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998

Articles

"Dispositional Compatibilism and Frankfurt-Type Examples," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (2008): 226-41.

 "Reflections on the Incompatibilist's Direct Argument," Erkenntnis 68 (2008): 1-19.

"Magical Agents, Global Induction, and the Internalism/Externalism Debate," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 342-71 [co-authored with Stefaan Cuypers].

"Hard- and Soft-Line Responses to Pereboom's Four-Case Manipulation Argument," Acta Analytica 21 (2006): 19-35 [co-authored with Stefaan Cuypers].

"Frankfurt Examples, Obligation, and Responsibility," The Journal of Ethics 10 (2006): 255-81.

"On the Ultimate Responsibility of Collectives," Midwest Studies in Philosophy 30 (2006): 292-308.

"Defending Frankfurt's Arguments in Deterministic Contexts: A Reply to Palmer," The Journal of Philosophy 103 (2006): 363-72 [co-authored with Michael McKenna].

"The Principle of Alternate Possibilities and a Defeated Dilemma," Philosophical Explorations 9 (2006): 179-202.

“Foreknowledge, Freedom, and Obligation,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005): 321-39

“Libertarianism, Luck, and Action Explanation,” The Journal of Philosophical Research 30 (2005): 321-40.

“Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility: Prospects for a Unifying Theory,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29 (2005): 106-25.

"Freedom, Hedonism, and the Intrinsic Value of Lives," Philosophical Topics 32 (2004): 131-51.

“Responsibility and the Problem of Manipulation Reconsidered,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (2004): 439-64 [co-authored with Stefaan Cuypers].

"Active Control, Agent Causation, and Free Action," Philosophical Explorations 7 (2004) 131-48.

"Dialectical Delicacies in the Debate About Freedom and Moral Responsibility," The Journal of Philosophy 101 (2004): 299-314 [co-authored with Michael McKenna].

"Flickers of Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility," American Philosophical Quarterly 40 (2003): 287-302.

"Determinism and its Threat to the Moral Sentiments," The Monist 86 (2003): 244-62.