Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral Responsibility

claims, and less familiar with what has been said and argued? True, both compatibilist and incompatibilist philosophers have made claims about what ordinary people believe about free will and moral responsibility (for examples, see Nahmias et al. 2006, 29– 30), and such claims are best tested empirically. What is not clear is how much stock philosophers should put in such ordinary beliefs. Accordingly, before examining some recent experimental contributions, we’ll begin by canvassing some of the more prominent reasons