Saul Smilansky

{{short description|Israeli philosopher}}

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|name = Saul Smilansky

|birth_date = 1961

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|school_tradition = Analytic

| institutions = University of Haifa

|main_interests = applied ethics, free will

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|notable_ideas = Free will illusionism

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|website = https://www.saulsmilansky.com/

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Saul Smilansky (born 1961) is an Israeli philosopher and a Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Haifa. He is known for his works on free will and applied ethics.{{cite journal |last1=Lam |first1=Vanessa |title=On Smilansky’s Defense of Prepunishment: A Response to Robinson |journal=Philosophia |date=1 December 2016 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=1367–1374 |doi=10.1007/s11406-016-9775-y |language=en |issn=1574-9274}}{{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=John Martin |title=My Way and Life’s Highway: Replies to Steward, Smilansky, and Perry |journal=The Journal of Ethics |date=1 June 2008 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=167–189 |doi=10.1007/s10892-008-9029-8 |language=en |issn=1572-8609}}{{cite journal |last1=Moriarty |first1=Jeffrey |title=Smilansky, Arneson, and the asymmetry of desert |journal=Philosophical Studies |date=1 February 2013 |volume=162 |issue=3 |pages=537–545 |doi=10.1007/s11098-011-9780-8 |language=en |issn=1573-0883}}{{cite journal |last1=Pirhayati |first1=Ali |title=A Short Counter-argument to Belief in Progress |journal=Think |date=October 2024 |volume=23 |issue=68 |pages=45–48 |doi=10.1017/S1477175624000095 |language=en |issn=1477-1756}}{{cite journal |last1=Nadelhoffer |first1=Thomas |last2=Feltz |first2=Adam |title=Folk Intuitions, Slippery Slopes, and Necessary Fictions: An Essay on Saul Smilansky's Free Will Illusionism |journal=Midwest Studies in Philosophy |date=September 2007 |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=202–213 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4975.2007.00156.x |language=en |issn=0363-6550}}