A. But even if you did, that doesn't entail that we need to bring back free will and basic desert am. And i think one thing is being confused here is that when wee got off on te discussion of punishment, is that we failed to distinguish between all the different types of justifications for punishment. A. Mixed accounts might retain some and and therefore we have to get into the weeds. Dan agrees that compatibles control is not enough to preserve basic desert. And i see that as a victory. I'm very clear about what my desert is and what it means. So there's absolutely no reason to have to be compatiblist to defend what dan wants in this debate.
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.