Death of a Compatibilistic Intuition

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    Abstract

    The common key intuition that freedom is to do what you want to do is very attractive to compatibilistic accounts of freedom. And as a matter of fact this key intuition has been adopted by most compatibilists from Hobbes till now. Unfortunately, it suffers from serious problems. However, thanks to the real self account of freedom - which is a recent compatibilistic theory developed by Harry G. Frankfurt and refined and extended by various philosophers, most notably (perhaps) by Gary Watson - the key intuition is revived. Or what? In this paper I argue (A) that the real self account's rescue of the key intuition does not succeed because (i) Frankfurt's and Watson's versions of the real self account of freedom are flawed and because (ii) the real self account as such is flawed as well. Furthermore I will argue (B) that the key intuition is not to be rescued by any means whatsoever.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)92-104
    Number of pages13
    JournalSATS
    Volume5
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2004

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Philosophy

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