Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He
argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic …

In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds
upon the work of PF Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be …

Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential
to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes …

The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral
responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what …

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 …

Dana Kay Nelkin presents a simple and natural account of freedom and moral responsibility
which responds to the great variety of challenges to the idea that we are free and …

Common sense tells us that we are morally responsible for our actions only if we have free
will-and that we have free will only if we are able to choose among alternative actions …

We live in a complex and interconnected world with individual‐and community‐level
development and well‐being shaped by numerous variables. Given this multi‐deterministic …

Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem, which concerns a disputed
incompatibility between free will and determinism. Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is …

A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging
what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have …