It seems as though you have a scenario in which there is no choice but to cope as well as you can. There is value in being an example for others, even...
But, we do find them in society, which is objective and observable. So, I deny your claim. Perhaps it would help if you define what you mean by a "nor...
It would certainly rule out social insects, but it would not explain why being social would require a responsibility dynamic in the sense we experienc...
Brain waves are electrical voltage variations detected on the scalp. They result from the collective firing of neurons, which is an electrochemical pr...
Fair enough. As for conventions being arbitrary, some are, like what an ABBABABA computer state means. Others may be a bit less so, but the fact that ...
Really? Why? Human beings have a hierarchy of needs that must be met to become fully realized. Thus, norms (this system of needs) is built into our em...
I do not know what this means. The existence of the universe has no a priori necessity, so, it is contingent. A posteriori, it is necessary. The unive...
That is not in dispute. This is the very point in question. Personally, I hold no one responsible for actions in which they played no determining role...
Thank you for the compatibilist accounts. That is not in dispute. This is the very point in question. Personally, I hold no one responsible for action...
What I cited were meta-analyses of hundreds of experiments. Meta-analysis is a technique developed in physics to refine the accuracy of physical const...
These are not my arguments. If being a social animal explains responsibility, we have the following argument, valid by the modus ponens: If an animal ...
Yes, it could happen. However supervenience is an asymmetrical relation, so if A supervenes on B, it need not be the case that B supervenes on A. I di...
Thank you. I am not wring such a book now. I wrote a 400 page manuscript back in the late 80s and early 90s that was well-received in private distribu...
By applying the standard definition I quoted from the SEP. My point is not what anyone would do,. but what the definition allows. That the definition ...
No, I see the normative implications of responsibility as quite rational, because I see the agent as the radical origin of a new line of action that r...
First, conventional and subjective are completely different concepts. Things are subjective because they are properties of subjects as such, not becau...
OK. Responsibility came up because I was asked what free will would explain. It seems to me that if there is no free will, then there would be no reas...
Of course we are much different than hive insects, but that does not undermine my point. The thesis was that responsibility is explained by us being s...
Your "can't" is about physical, not logical or metaphysical, necessity. Your "could" has the force of an imagined state, not physical possibility. We ...
Clearly, mental phenomena have physical effects. In the placebo effect, telling the patient that a drug is efficacious makes it more efficacious. This...
I am not saying that responsibility has no subjective element, but that it is not entirely subjective. Responsibility is a relation between a subject ...
I don't think this quite cuts it. If responsibility were an arbitrary convention, how can it play a dynamic role in our personal and social life? Agai...
Proairesis merely names the process leading to a decision. It literally beans "before choice." So, there is nothing to espouse with regard to its exis...
Yes, I see the modal "can." Our biological existence depends on living in the kind of universe that we do. If the laws of nature, the physical constan...
This is why I brought up ants. They and bees have social roles and follow rules of contingent behavior, but because they have no choice of role or con...
I understand that this is your belief. I do not see an argument supporting your belief. I do not think that choice belongs only to the privileged. The...
I have no argument with any of this, but it does not (1) show that that only one line of action is in our power, or (2) that we are morally responsibl...
I agree, that we may be justified in removing sources of immanent danger from society, even if they did not choose to be as they are. That has nothing...
If there is free will, the parents are responsible for choosing to raise junior without concern for the larger good. Junior is responsible for choosin...
Okay, we agree that there is no optimization. That being the case, what makes the outcome of proairesis deterministic? It seems that if we find many l...
Yes. We are social animals. Then, it is not a choice at all. Unless there is more than one possibility open, there is nothing to choose. Did the moon ...
I addressed that in my second paragraph. Being an instrumental cause does not make one responsible unless one is a willing instrument. Hammers are not...
You seem to begin with an unargued faith position, and then immediately contradict it by saying that we choose to live in societies. If we have no fre...
A free decision is not an unmotivated decision. If I am seriously weighing two options, which ever I choose can be explained in terms of the factors m...
How? If whatever I do is fully immanent, fully determined, in the state of the world before we are conceived, then our actual existence can play no ro...
By itself, a goal is not a sign of free will, but the choice of a goal against a compulsion is a sign that the compulsion is not determining. Consider...
I was being called to dinner when I last responded, so had little time. Let me start again. Evolution works by selecting successful variant genotypes....
I understand your argument. The question is: how can evolution determine that an unimplemented decision is better than an implemented one? All it can ...
I have no reason to doubt that you have free will. You may have trouble executing some decisions because of your disorder, but not being a psychiatris...
Whenever I select or prefer one thing over another, I'm choosing it. Even though I can't implement my choice now, it is still a choice. If I were to w...
I read your response. I am unsure what point your first paragraph is making other than many people question human knowledge. I give no weight to group...
No, they mean something quite different. I can choose a Maserati over a Fiat, but that does not mean it is in my power to buy a Maserati. Choosing is ...
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