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Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1994, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Doing Ethics
• Comments on "House for Sale"
• A Response to "House for Sale" by Jean Calhoun
• Notice: Prominent Author and Law Professor to Address C.W.R.U.
• Goodbye....
• Welcome....
• New & Notes

Challenges For Compatibilism, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

In order to show that persons can be morally accountable even though their choices are at least potentially explainable in a scientific way, the standard compatibilist position holds that causal determinism is compatible with some type of freedom or autonomy moral responsibility requires. This paper shows that even if causal determinism is indeed compatible with that sort of freedom, that cannot prove contemporary scientific explanations for choices are compatible with moral responsibility. In other words, this paper argues that much of the debate over free will, autonomy, and determinism cannot establish compatibilism. Recognition of this point leads us to seek …

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Spring 1994, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics Day 1995: Ethics and Computers by Pete Simmelink, Jerod Tufte and Sam Harmon
• Doing Ethics! "House for Sale"
• Comments on "Benevolence"
• First Comment by Marty Krist
• Second Comment by Rev. John L. Brown
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1994, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Carter Lecture a Success
• Save the Dates
• News & Notes