Further Reflections on The Free Will Debate and Basic Desert: A Reply to Nelkin and Pereboom

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-290
Author(s):  
Michael McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Basic Desert

The Free Will Debate and Basic Desert

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Basic Desert

scholarly journals Basically Deserved Blame and its Value

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Basic Desert

How should we understand basic desert as a justification for blaming? Many philosophers account for free will by reference to the sort of moral responsibility that involves a blameworthy person deserving blame in a basic sense of desert; free will just is the control condition for this sort of moral responsibility. But what precisely does basic desert come to, and what is it about blame that makes it the thing that a blameworthy person deserves? As it turns out, there are challenges in attempting to understand basic desert for blame. One concerns whether the only good in harming a person by blaming her is instrumental. If so, there may be reason to reject desert-based conceptions of blame. In this paper, I will develop an account of basically deserved blame. In doing so, I will also defend the controversial thesis that the harm involved in blaming can be good in a way that is not merely instrumental.

When Mother Earth Rises Up

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Sacchi ◽  
Paolo Riva ◽  
Marco Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Willingness To Help ◽  
Mother Earth

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.

Free will and agency.

1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Sappington
Keyword(s):  
Free Will

The Pity of Evil: Assumptions of Free Will and Responsibility in Psychology

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (47) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Hettema
Keyword(s):  
Free Will

Freud and Free Will: Fact, Fantasy, and Philosophy

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Boag
Keyword(s):  
Free Will

What’s all the recent free-will ado about?

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno G. Breitmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Free Will

Do We Really Have the Concepts of Free Will and Responsibility?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Suzuki ◽  
Koji Tsuchiya ◽  
Makoto Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Free Will
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