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Mechanical Choices: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response

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Main Author: List, Christian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Springer 2023
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Mechanical Choices
Libertarian Response
Online Access:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11572-023-09671-x
https://dlib.phenikaa-uni.edu.vn/handle/PNK/9313
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spelling oai:localhost:PNK-93132023-09-28T02:26:56Z Mechanical Choices: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response List, Christian Mechanical Choices Libertarian Response CC-BY Michael S. Moore defends the ideas of free will and responsibility, especially in relation to criminal law, against several challenges from neuroscience. I agree with Moore that morality and the law presuppose a commonsense understanding of humans as rational agents, who make choices and act for reasons, and that to defend moral and legal responsibility, we must show that this commonsense understanding remains viable. Unlike Moore, however, I do not think that classical compatibilism, which is based on a conditional understanding of the ability to do otherwise, provides a sufficiently robust account of free will, even when it is amended as Moore suggests. I argue that free will and responsibility can be defended more robustly by observing that, at the level of agency, there can be alternative possibilities and mental causation in a stronger sense than recognized by classical compatibilism, even if physical determinism is true. 2023-09-28T02:26:56Z 2023-09-28T02:26:56Z 2023 Book https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11572-023-09671-x https://dlib.phenikaa-uni.edu.vn/handle/PNK/9313 en application/pdf Springer
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Libertarian Response
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Libertarian Response
List, Christian
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