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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 …