Defeating Manipulation Arguments: Interventionist causation and compatibilist sourcehood

Volume: 174, Issue: 5, Pages: 1255 - 1276
Published: Aug 8, 2016
Abstract
We use recent interventionist theories of causation to develop a compatibilist account of causal sourcehood, which provides a response to Manipulation Arguments for the incompatibility of free will and determinism. Our account explains the difference between manipulation and determinism, against the claim of Manipulation Arguments that there is no relevant difference. Interventionism allows us to see that causal determinism does not mean that...
Paper Details
Title
Defeating Manipulation Arguments: Interventionist causation and compatibilist sourcehood
Published Date
Aug 8, 2016
Volume
174
Issue
5
Pages
1255 - 1276
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