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  1. free will and moral responsibility - Encyclopedia Britannica

    Free will and moral responsibility, also called problem of moral responsibility, the problem of reconciling moral responsibility with the apparent fact that humans do not have free will because their actions are causally determined. It is an ancient and enduring philosophical puzzle.

  2. Sample Essay on Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    Sample Essay on Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Ultius. 17 May 2014. Free will is a fundamental aspect of modern philosophy. This sample philosophy paper explores how moral responsibility and free will represent an important area of moral debate between philosophers.

  3. Free Will and Moral Responsibility - 1000-Word Philosophy: An ...

    Free will is the basis for moral responsibility, or so many have argued. Philosophers commonly say that ‘ought’ implies ‘can.’. What does this mean? To justifiably tell someone that she (morally) ought to do something, it would also have to be the case that she can do that thing. Suppose I tell you that you ought to cure cancer.

  4. Free Will - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Thus, we arrive at the core connection between free will and moral responsibility: agents deserve praise or blame only if their actions are up to them—only if they have free will. Consequently, we can assess analyses of free will by their implications for judgments of moral responsibility.

  5. 12 Free Will and Moral Responsibility - Oxford Academic

    This article explores a variety of conceptions of moral responsibility and their connection to the idea of free will. Its main focus is on the challenge of causal determinism. Much has been written recently about free will and moral responsibility.

  6. Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    reasoning for the incompatibility of determinism and moral responsibility: If determinism is true, one lacks the freedom to do otherwise. But one is morally responsible for having done something only if one could have done otherwise (the principle of alternate possibilities). Hence, determinism rules out moral responsibility (van Inwagen 1983 ...

  7. Moral Responsibility - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    If moral responsibility requires free will and free will requires a type of access to alternatives that is not compatible with determinism (see §1), then it follows that if determinism is true, no one is ever morally responsible for their behavior.

  8. Free Will And Moral Responsibility | Myway: Essays on Moral ...

    In this chapter I will focus on the relationship between free will, on the one hand, and various notions that fall under the rubric of “morality,” broadly construed, on the other: deliberation and practical reasoning, moral responsibility, and ethical notions such as “ought,” “right,” “wrong,” “good,” and “bad.”

  9. Sam Harris, Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    Sam Harris mounts a case for the hard determinist position that free will is an illusion while allowing for a limited sense of moral responsibility. In this essay, Leslie Allan provides a comprehensive analysis of Harris’ arguments, mostly centred on Harris’ book, Free Will.

  10. Free Will - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Most philosophers suppose that the concept of free will is very closely connected to the concept of moral responsibility. Acting with free will, on such views, is just to satisfy the metaphysical requirement on being responsible for one's action.