Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Islamic Philosophy

Moral psychology, vol. 4: free will and moral responsibility.

ISSN: 1354-6805 (Print) 1464-0619 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/pcnp20 Moral psychology, vol. 4: free will and moral responsibility David E.J. Linden To cite this article: David E.J. Linden (2015) Moral psychology, vol. 4: free will and moral responsibility, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20:5, 469-472, DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2015.1073470 To link to this article: http://d...

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. Acco...

Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions

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Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Philosophers working in the nascent field of ‘experimental philosophy’ have begun using methods borrowed from psychology to collect data about folk intuitions concerning debates ranging from action theory to ethics to epistemology. In this paper we present the results of our attempts to apply this approach to the free will debate, in which philosophers on opposing sides claim that their view be...

Consciousness, free will, and moral responsibility: Taking the folk seriously

In this paper, I offer evidence that folk views of free will and moral responsibility accord a central place to consciousness. In sections 2 and 3, I contrast action production via conscious states and processes with action in concordance with an agent's long-standing and endorsed motivations, values, and character traits. Results indicate that conscious action production is considered much mor...