Mark Ravizza’s research while affiliated with University of California, Riverside and other places

... As I will explain, some of the diagnosis criteria of BPD such as emotional instability or impulsivity 3 might serve as excusing factors targeting the "control condition" on moral responsibility. The control condition on moral responsibility claims that S is responsible for x only if S had control over the happening of x (Fischer & Ravizza 1998). This condition has, implicitly or explicitly, been at the center of the debate of whether people with certain personality disorders could be held responsible for their actions. ...

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Borderline personality disorder and moral responsibility

... This view is modified fromFischer and Ravizza (1998). For attempts to extend this view to attitudes, seeMcCormick (2014) andMcHugh (2017).12 ...

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A theory of assessability for reasonableness

... With the most prominent one being that ofFisher and Ravizza (2000). But for a beautiful analysis of reason sensitivity see alsoNomy Arpaly (2004). ...

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The incentives account of feasibility

... If the kleptomaniac is unable to modulate her behavior in response to reasons that she takes to be decisive (say, public humiliation), she probably does not exercise enough control to count as responsible. If she only responds to extraordinary reasons (like the agent in Mele's (2000) example of an agoraphobic who would leave the house but only if it were on fire), then she is not responsible for failing to respond to ordinary moral reasons. Some degree of control is not enough for moral responsibility: we need to assess whether an agent has enough control to count as morally responsible. ...

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The Myth of Zero-Sum Responsibility: Towards Scaffolded Responsibility for Health

... Fischer and Ravizza's theory of MRR may give such an answer for this kind of contradiction. MRR reveals that humans who have mechanisms that are responsive and reactive to reason can be said to be eligible for an assessment of responsibility for their actions (Bratman, 2000). Accordingly, Faulkner's response and reactions against the subject of race evoked his moral responsibility to promote a narrative discourse of moderation. ...

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Moderation of the Narrative Discourse and Historical Authenticity in William Faulkner's ABSALOM, ABSALOM!

... 4 See, e.g., Ravizza (1994), Fischer and Ravizza (1998, chp. 6), Warfield (1996), Stump and Fischer (2000), Stump (2000), McKenna (2001), Stump (2002), Widerker (2002), Fischer (2004Fischer ( , reprinted in his 2006, Haji (2008), Haji (2010), Shabo (2010a), Hermes (2014b), and Capes (2016). For a helpful review, see Widerker and Schnall (2014). ...

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The direct argument is a prima facie threat to compatibilism

... The Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). This doctrine is mentioned in quite a few discussions about the trolley problem (Boyle 1980;Davis 1984;Fischer and Ravizza 1992a;Reibetanz 1998;McIntyre 2001;Shaw 2006;Edmonds 2013). The doctrine says that there is a moral difference between the intentional harm as a means and the foreseen harm as a side-effect (Quinn 1989b). ...

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A Review and Systematization of the Trolley Problem

... Van Inwagen has argued that "no one is able to do anything if he wants very much not to do that thing and has no countervailing desire to do it" (1989, p. 406). I will offer a new defense of his argument against an objection from Fischer and Ravizza (1992), then try to show that if his argument is sound, my bolder thesis is also true. My thesis implies that free will, when defined as the ability to do otherwise than one does, is at most possible in situations where (1) one has no strongest desire, (2) one has a strongest desire but no strongest desire about how to secure its object. ...

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Free Will and Desire

... MIT Press. For a response to these positions, see, e.g., Fischer, J. M., Ravizza, M., and Copp, D. (1993). Quinn on double effect: The problem of "closeness". ...

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Necessity in Law and Military Doctrine: Conflicts and Potential Solutions

... See alsoWaller's (1990), (2011), and (2015), Pereboom's (2001) & (2014), and Honderick's (2002). 4 John Martin Fischer argues against the symmetry of PPA and PAP in his (1985) as well as in his and MarkRavizza's (1991). They argue that PAP is false but PPA true. ...

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Indecision and Buridan’s Principle