There are other notions of responsibility that remain totally intact. We also engage in certain types of moral exchanges and moral practices where ina moral protest is even justified. This is what a dirpom calls a kind of forward looking a form of moral responsibility. It's grounded not in the notion of desert, or basic desert, but instead is grounded in three non desert deseratum. I e future reconciliation, future safety, future moral formation. i think dan and i agree on a whole lot when it comes to those kind of practices.
The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.