John Martin Fischer (born December 26, 1952) is an American philosopher.
[1] Fischer received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1982.
In June 2011, Fischer was elected vice-president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association and became president of the Pacific Division in 2013.
[1] In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[2] While Fischer's work centers primarily on free will and moral responsibility, where he is particularly noted as a proponent of semi-compatibilism[3] (the idea that regardless of whether free will and determinism are compatible, moral responsibility and determinism are),[4] he also has worked on the metaphysics of death and philosophy of religion and led a multi-year, multi-pronged research project on "immortality," funded in 2012 by the John Templeton Foundation.