Ethics
Recent Work on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
By and , University of Melbourne Florida State University (December 2008)
Section: Ethics
Subjects: Theoretical Ethics, Philosophy, Metaethics, Ethics.
Key Topics: free will, freedom, agency, morality, determinism.
Abstract
In this article we survey six recent developments in the philosophical literature on free will and moral responsibility: (1) Harry Frankfurt's argument that moral responsibility does not require the freedom to do otherwise; (2) the heightened focus upon the source of free actions; (3) the debate over whether moral responsibility is an essentially historical concept; (4) recent compatibilist attempts to resurrect the thesis that moral responsibility requires the freedom to do otherwise; (5) the role of the control condition in free will and moral responsibility, and finally (6) the debate centering on luck.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00197.x
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