NDLI: Moral Responsibility, Manipulation Arguments, and History: Assessing the Resilience of Nonhistorical Compatibilism

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Author	McKenna, Michael
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Manipulation arguments for incompatibilism all build upon some example or other in which an agent is covertly manipulated into acquiring a psychic structure on the basis of which she performs an action. The featured agent, it is alleged, is manipulated into satisfying conditions compatibilists would take to be sufficient for acting freely. Such an example used in the context of an argument for incompatibilism is meant to elicit the intuition that, due to the pervasiveness of the manipulation, the agent does not act freely and is not morally responsible for what she does. It is then claimed that any agent’s coming to be in the same psychic state through a deterministic process is no different in any relevant respect from the pertinent manner of manipulation. Hence, it is concluded that compatibilists’ proposed sufficient conditions for free will and moral responsibility are inadequate, and that free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism. One way for compatibilists to resist certain manipulation arguments is by appealing to historical requirements that, they contend, relevant manipulated agents lack. While a growing number of compatibilists advance an historical thesis, in this paper, I redouble my efforts to show, in defense of nonhistorical compatibilists like Harry Frankfurt, that there is still life left in a nonhistorical view. The historical compatibilists, I contend, have fallen shy of discrediting their nonhistorical compatibilist rivals.
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	174
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13824554
Journal	The Journal of Ethics
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728609
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-05-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Derivative freedom Direct freedom Harry Frankfurt Historical compatibilism Incompatibilism Nonhistorical compatibilism Manipulation argument Alfred Mele Philosophy Political Philosophy Ethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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