Many contemporary compatibles are seeking to preserve basic desert and many contemporary compatiblists think that we can make the kind of moral responsibility i'm denying consistent with truths of determinism. Dan's not one of those a. And so there's a new strand, which you might call an old strand. I think dan is going back to an older version of compatibleism where people are giving forward looking justifications for this backward looking system of desert ah. In modern times, the only two well known people who defend that view isdan and manuel argas. The vast majority of people, like john martin fisher, like a susan wolf, like a a david shoemaker, a m
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.