Ought implies can, asymmetrical freedom, and the practical irrelevance of transcendental freedom
Abstract In this paper, I demonstrate that Kant's commitment to an asymmetry between the control conditions for praise and blame is explained by his endorsement of the principle Ought Implies Can (OIC). I argue that Kant accepts only a relatively weak version of OIC and that he is hence committed only to a relatively weak requirement of alternate ...
Matthé Scholten
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Judgments about moral responsibility and determinism in patients with behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia: Still compatibilists [PDF]
Do laypeople think that moral responsibility is compatible with determinism? Recently, philosophers and psychologists trying to answer this question have found contradictory results: while some experiments reveal people to have compatibilist intuitions ...
Bertoux, Maxime +3 more
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From cyborg to cybernantrophe: Basic political, cultural and philosophical dimensions of the concepts [PDF]
This paper will provide an overview and critically examine the underlying political, cultural and philosophical dimensions of artificial intelligence through the analysis of current theoretical variants of the idea of humanism: from posthumanism and ...
Stojanović Đorđe
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Does Everyone Think the Ability to do Otherwise is Necessary for Free Will and Moral Responsibility? [PDF]
Christopher Franklin argues that, despite appearances, everyone thinks that the ability to do otherwise is required for free will and moral responsibility.
Kittle, Simon
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Understanding Source Incompatibilism [PDF]
Source incompatibilism is an increasingly popular version of incompatibilism about determinism and moral responsibility. However, many self-described source incompatibilists formulate the thesis differently, resulting in conceptual confusion that can ...
Tognazzini, Neal A.
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Brain Determinism and Free Will [PDF]
The article focuses on the issue of brain determinism, by examining two recent neuroscientific experiments (Libet’s and Haynes’ experiments about conscious acts). Such experiments aim to show a cerebral determination of the agent’s free choices.
Magni, Sergio Filippo
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Responsibility, Determinism and Freedom [PDF]
This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra ...
Sie, M.M.S.K. (Maureen)
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Grounding Responsibility: Helen Steward's Libertarianism and a Hemi-Incompatibilist Alternative [PDF]
This project has two purposes. The first is to evaluate Helen Steward’s libertarian account, as presented in A Metaphysics for Freedom, and assess its ability to help ground moral responsibility.
Renaud, Mary
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How Molinists Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too [PDF]
Paper on divine foreknowledge and human ...
Brüntrup, Godehard, Schneider, Ruben
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Acerca de la viabilidad del semicompatibilismo [PDF]
El semicompatibilismo respecto de la responsabilidad es la posición según la cual el determinismo es compatible con la responsabilidad moral, independientemente de si aquel excluye el tipo de libertad que requiere acceso a posibilidades alternativas ...
Haji, Ishtiyaque
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