“One more time”: time loops as a tool to investigate folk conceptions of moral responsibility and human agency

ABSTRACT: In the past 20 years, experimental philosophers have investigated folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility, and their compatibility with determinism. To determine whether laypeople are “natural compatibilists” or “natural incompatibilists”, they have used vignettes describing agents living in deterministic universes. However, later research has suggested that participants’ answers to these studies are plagued with comprehension errors: either people fail to really accept that these universes are deterministic, or they confuse determinism with something else. This had led certain experimenters to conclude that maybe folk intuitions about the compatibility of free will with determinism could not be empirically investigated. Here, we propose that we should refrain from embraci

SUBMITTER: Giraud T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465374 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature