Citations of:
Semicompatibilism: no ability to do otherwise required
Philosophical Explorations 20 (3):308-321 (2017)
Add citations
You must login to add citations.
|
|
It is widely thought that, to be morally responsible for some action or omission, an agent must have had, at the very least, the general ability to do otherwise. As we argue, however, there are counterexamples to the claim that moral responsibility requires the general ability to do otherwise. We present several cases in which agents lack the general ability to do otherwise and yet are intuitively morally responsible for what they do, and we argue that such cases raise problems (...) |