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Transferring Non-Responsibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Direct Argument argues for the claim that determinism and moral responsibility are incompatible. The most controversial assumption of the argument is the thought that "not being responsible for" transfers across conditionals: if no one is (even ...
Maruchi, Gabriel de Andrade   +1 more
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A Necessity of Morals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
John Martin Fischer has stated that his initial motivation for his work The Metaphysics of Free Will was “to defend moral culpability from the threats of causal determinism and divine omniscience” while also asserting semi-compatibilism.
McElrath, Austin
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Fischer’s Semicompatibilism and its Consequences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this paper I argue that the symmetric approach to moral responsibility, proposed by John Martin Fischer, should be focused merely on the consequence-particular. Fischer employs the symmetric approach with the intention to solve the asymmetric problems
Marnil, Pisit, Tangyin, Kajornpat
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Deontic Morality and Control by Ishtiyaque Haji [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This article is a review of “Deontic Morality and Control” by Ishtiyaque ...
NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro   +1 more
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Karma, Moral Responsibility and Buddhist Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes
The Buddha taught that there is no self. He also accepted a version of the doctrine of karmic rebirth, according to which good and bad actions accrue merit and demerit respectively and where this determines the nature of the agent’s next life and ...
Finnigan, Bronwyn
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The Counterfactual Theory of Free Will: A Genuinely Deterministic Form of Soft Determinism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
I argue for a soft compatibilist theory of free will, i.e., such that free will is compatible with both determinism and indeterminism, directly opposite hard incompatibilism, which holds free will incompatible both with determinism and indeterminism.
Repetti, Rick
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Can Libertarianism or Compatibilism Capture Aquinas\u27 View on the Will? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The contemporary free will debate is largely split into two camps, libertarianism and compatibilism. It is commonly assumed that if one is to affirm the existence of free will then she will find herself in one of these respective camps.
Gallagher, Kelly
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