Hard incompatibilism

The view that neither determinism nor indeterminism supplies the kind of control real moral responsibility needs — an uncaused, random event isn't thereby authored by the agent either, so the libertarian's escape from determinism does not help.

Sources

  • Derk Pereboom, Living Without Free Will (2001)
  • Galen Strawson, "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility", Philosophical Studies 75 (1994)

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