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Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: The dispute between compatibilists and incompatibilists must be one of the most persistent and heated deadlocks in Western philosophy. Incompatibilists maintain that people are not fully morally responsible if determinism is true, i.e., if every event is an inevitable consequence of the prior conditions and the natural laws. By contrast, compatibilists maintain

Source: Noûs

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00666.x

Authors: Shaun Nichols, Joshua Knobe

Institutions: University of Arizona, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Free Will and Agency

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Yale University