Most people would agree that a small child, or a cognitively impaired adult, is less
responsible for their actions, good or bad, than an unimpaired adult. But how do we explain …

Blame is a reaction to something of negative normative significance about someone or their
behavior. A paradigm case, perhaps, would be when one person wrongs another, and the …

We believe that we have free will and this belief is so firmly entrenched in our daily lives that
it is almost impossible to take seriously the thought that it might be mistaken. We deliberate …

Incompatibilists hold that free will and determinism are mutually exclusive and,
consequently, that we act freely (ie, with free will) only if determinism is false. However, they …

" Free Will" is largely a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational
agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. Which sort is the free …

This Element provides a thorough overview of the free will debate as it currently stands. After
distinguishing the main senses of the term'free will'invoked in that debate, it proceeds to set …

The word'accountability'is often used without much thought being given to what precisely it
means. It is especially common in Christian circles, where there is frequent talk about being …

The idea of agent causation—that a system such as a living organism can be a cause of
things in the world—is often seen as mysterious and deemed to be at odds with the …

It is conventional wisdom that appreciating the role of luck in our moral lives should make us
more sparing with blame. But views of moral responsibility that allow luck to augment a …

Galen Strawson's Basic Argument is that because self-creation is required to be truly morally
responsible and self-creation is impossible, it is impossible to be truly morally responsible …