<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Recently, John Maier has developed a unified account of various agentive modalities (such as general abilities, potentialities, and skills). According to him, however, adopting the account provides an alternative framework for thinking about free will and moral responsibility, one that reveals an unacceptable instability in semicompatibilism (the view that the freedom required for moral responsibility is compatible with determinism even if the freedom to do otherwise is not). In this paper, I argue that Maier is mistaken about the implications of his account and sketch a semicompatibilist proposal that can, without countenancing any instability, accept Maier’s unified account of the agentive modalities.</p></abstract>

Recently, John Maier has developed a unified account of various agentive modalities (such as general abilities, potentialities, and skills). According to him, however, adopting the account provides an alternative framework for thinking about free will and moral responsibility, one that reveals an unacceptable instability in semicompatibilism (the view that the freedom required for moral responsibility is compatible with determinism even if the freedom to do otherwise is not). In this paper, I argue that Maier is mistaken about the implications of his account and sketch a semicompatibilist proposal that can, without countenancing any instability, accept Maier’s unified account of the agentive modalities.

Is Semicompatibilism Unstable?

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Recently, John Maier has developed a unified account of various agentive modalities (such as general abilities, potentialities, and skills). According to him,...

Is Semicompatibilism Unstable?

Publicado en línea: 06 mar 2018

Páginas: 245 - 264

Recibido: 27 jul 2017

Aceptado: 11 feb 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/disp-2017-0006

Palabras clave
Ability, John Martin Fischer, John Maier, option, semicompatibilism

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Is Semicompatibilism Unstable?

Publicado en línea: 06 mar 2018

Páginas: 245 - 264

Recibido: 27 jul 2017

Aceptado: 11 feb 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/disp-2017-0006

Palabras claveAbility, John Martin Fischer, John Maier, option, semicompatibilism

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Ability, John Martin Fischer, John Maier, option, semicompatibilism