Moral responsibility and determinism

Authors

  • Tania Schneider da Fonseca

Keywords:

Moral responsibility. Substantive responsibility. Guidance control. Compatibilism. Semi-compatibilist.

Abstract

This article discusses the conditions, which must be met so that moral responsibility can be properly ascribed to the agent. I will argue that even accepting the truth of determinism it is plausible to think that agents are properly subjected to praise and blame. To argue in favor of this point I will consider cases of coercion and cerebral manipulation from the point of view of Thomas Scanlon’s compatibilist conception of responsibility and John Fischer and Mark Ravizza’s semi-compatibilist theory.

Published

2017-02-20

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