Rescuing Responsibility – and Freedom. A Compatibilist Treatment

Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences (forthcoming)
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Curran F. Douglass ABSTRACT: This paper confronts two questions: How is it possible to be free if causal determinism is true?; and relatedly, How then is the practice of holding persons responsible for their actions to be justified? On offer here is a compatibilist account of freedom, tying it to control; the relation – argued …

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