Journal of Philosophical Research 23 (January):441-458 (1998)
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Recently there have been a number of attempts to show that free will is not a necessary condition for moral responsibility. It is argued that moral responsibility can be shown to be compatible with determinism even if free will is not. I assess the two most prominent arguments for this position and conclude that neither is sound. There is, however, an argument which does make a prima facie case for this new form of compatibilism. This argument, however, is not decisive. I maintain that what can be learned from the argument’s short-comings is that the free will problem can only be resolved by appeal to moral theory. We need some method by which competing intuitions about the matter can be adjudicated
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Keywords | Action Compatibilism Ethics Freedom Moral Theory |
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ISBN(s) | 1053-8364 |
DOI | 10.5840/jpr_1998_7 |
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