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Can Soft‐Line Compatibilism Handle Eternally Recurrent Manipulation?
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT A key challenge to compatibilism comes from manipulation arguments. These argue that agents whose actions are manipulated are not morally responsible and that manipulation is not relevantly different from determinism. One common response from compatibilists is to claim that there is a relevant difference between manipulation and ordinary ...
James Andow
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Free will, quarantines, and moral enhancements: neuroabolitionism as an alternative to criminal law
Frontiers in SociologyThis article critically navigates the complex debate surrounding free will and criminal justice, challenging traditional assumptions of moral responsibility and culpability.
Diego Borbón
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Free Will, Compatibilism, and Incompatibilism. A Dialogue with Daniel Dennett
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 Editor's ...
Sandro Nannini
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On ‘the Central Argument’ of ‘Freedom and Resentment’: Hieronymi, Russell, and Strawson
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT P. F. Strawson's 1962 essay ‘Freedom and Resentment’ has been enormously influential for the contemporary responsibility discussion. It nevertheless remains contested how the essay is to be understood, and what the central argument is, if there even is any such.
Anton Emilsson
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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 In this paper, we argue that hard incompatibilism imperils a typical component of loving relations —lovable behavior—if it imperils moral praiseworthiness.
Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers
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The consequences of incompatibilism
, 2023 Incompatibilism about responsibility and determinism is sometimes directly construed as the thesis that if we found out that determinism is true, we would have to give up the reactive attitudes. Call this “the consequence”. I argue that this is a mistake: The strict modal thesis does not entail the consequence.
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Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 1, Page 102-129, January 2026.Abstract Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common‐sense conception of vision, and that this conception is captured by Direct Realism.
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Incompatibilism and the avoidability of blame [PDF]
Ethics, 1998 Examinant les conditions d'attribution de la responsabilite d'une action mauvaise, ainsi que le principe des possibilites alternatives qui fonde l'argument de l'incompatibilite entre le determinisme et la faute, l'A. oppose le principe de l'evitabilite de la faute a la critique de l'incompatibilisme developpee par H. Frankfurt.
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The bayesian and the abductivist
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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Reflections on Sam Harris' "Free Will"
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 In his book Free Will Sam Harris tries to persuade us to abandon the morally pernicious idea of free will. The following contribution articulates and defends a more sophisticated model of free will that is not only consistent with neuroscience and ...
Daniel C. Dennett
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