Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: The Use and Abuse of Examples |
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Authors: | Sam Black Jon Tweedale |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada |
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Abstract: | The philosophical debate over the compatibility between causaldeterminism and moral responsibility relies heavily on ourreactions to examples. Although we believe that there is noalternative to this methodology in this area of philosophy, someexamples that feature prominently in the literature are positivelymisleading. In this vein, we criticize the use that incompatibilistsmake of the phenomenon of ``brainwashing,' as well as the Frankfurt-styleexamples favored by compatibilists. We provide an instance of thekind of thought experiment that is needed to genuinely test thehypothesis that moral accountability and causal determinism arecompatible. |
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Keywords: | freedom of will responsibility thought experiments |
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