Responsibility Without Freedom? Folk Judgements About Deliberate Actions

A long-standing position in philosophy, law, and theology is that a person can be held morally responsible for an action only if they had the freedom to choose and to act otherwise. Thus, many philosophers consider freedom to be a necessary condition for moral responsibility. However, empirical find...

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Main Authors: Tillmann Vierkant, Robert Deutschländer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, John-Dylan Haynes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01133/full