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The Dark Side Of Reactive Attitudes: From Persons To Compatibilism, Mallory A. Parker
The Dark Side Of Reactive Attitudes: From Persons To Compatibilism, Mallory A. Parker
Open Access Theses
This thesis contains two independent papers that both address the problems associated with the reactive attitudes. The first paper, presented in Chapter 2, discusses the negativities of the reactive attitudes in debates regarding skepticism about the moral notion of persons. The second paper, presented in Chapter 3, presents the negativities associated with the reactive attitudes in debates concerning compatibilism about moral responsibility. Neither chapter deals solely with presenting the negativities associated with the reactive attitudes. More than present these, both chapters undermine the non-realist or compatibilist philosophical arguments that attempt to save either the moral notion of persons (Chapter 2) …
A Preference For Freedom: Kantian Implications For An Incompatibilist Will And Practical Accountability, Maggie Miller
A Preference For Freedom: Kantian Implications For An Incompatibilist Will And Practical Accountability, Maggie Miller
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis aims to provide a coherent account of free will and practical grounds to prefer it. Its goal is to develop a pragmatic understanding of agency by which to hold individuals morally accountable. The paper begins with a critique of P.F. Strawson, whose seminal paper “Freedom and Resentment” bypasses the question of free will altogether in its claims about morality. Subsequently, it proceeds to a defense of incompatibilism that traces an argument through the existing literature. From this position, it claims that neither Strawson nor traditional compatibilists can provide an account of morality that is reliable or well enough …