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Gregg Caruso on Freewill and Punishment

Philosophy Bites

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Is There a Free Will in Agent Causation?

There's generally two types of determinist, or what are called libertarian accounts of free will. Event indeterminists think that it's just a matter of events being causally undetermined. My criticism against those kind of views would be that they can't preserve the kind of control in action that would be needed to ground basic desert moral responsibility. So i reject both versions that would get you to free will.

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