Moral responsibility and determinism: The cognitive science of folk intuitions

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Noûs 41 (4):663–685 (2007)
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An empirical study of people's intuitions about freedom of the will. We show that people tend to have compatiblist intuitions when they think about the problem in a more concrete, emotional way but that they tend to have incompatiblist intuitions when they think about the problem in a more abstract, cognitive way.

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10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00666.x

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