[MD] Moral Responsibility and Free Will

[Steven Peterson]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:55 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> dmb said to Steve:
> ...And may I remind you that we are talking about free will in the MOQ, not Kant's version or Descartes' version or whatever. I suspect your "something else" comes from some irrelevant source like that.
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> Steve replied:
> ...I have defended moral responsibility under the conditions usually considered to most unfavorable to free will, namely determinism, to show that moral responsibility can survive even the mechanistic cause-and-effect picture of the world.
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> dmb says:
> Well, that explains quite a lot.
> Ouch. (That was me biting my tongue.)
> You've been talking about moral responsibility under causal determinism - to prove you're NOT a nut job.
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> And how's that working out?


awww...and you were trying so hard to play nice and not be a dick. I
guess when you are an asshole it is very hard not to let it show.