Hart, Matthew J
(2017)
A Modest Classical Compatibilism.
Disputatio, 9 (45).
pp. 265-285.
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Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> The advent of Frankfurt-style counterexamples in the early 1970s posed a problem not merely for incompatibilists, but for compatibilists also. At that time compatibilists too were concerned to hold that the presence of alternative possibilities was necessary for moral responsibility. Such a classical compatibilism, I argue in this paper, should not have been left behind. I propose that we can use a Kratzer-style semantics of ‘can’ to model ‘could have done otherwise’ statements in such a way that the truth of such expressions is both (i) evidently consistent with determinism, and (ii) clearly such that Frankfurt-style counterexamples do not count as cases where the agent could not have done otherwise.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2019 09:15 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:36 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/disp-2017-0007 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3051101 |
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