Bb5a31f81ClaimRobert Sapolsky is a Stanford University neuroscientist and primatologist who argues that human behavior is determined without free willAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFree will skeptics argue that human choices do not entail basic-desert moral responsibility or retributive punishmentAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCompatibilist models of legal justice can emphasize offender rehabilitation and societal deterrence rather than retributive punishmentAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn Book Nine of John Milton's Paradise Lost, Adam cautions Eve that while human will is free, human reason can be deceived by apparent good into disobeying God's commandsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimOne school of philosophy of mind posits that humans are machines without free will, programmed by their genesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe control condition for moral responsibility is what is typically equated with free willAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBasic desert moral responsibility is the type that would make a person truly deserving of praise and blame in a purely backward-looking senseAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFree will is defined as the control in action required for basic desert moral responsibilityAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimQuantum indeterminacy does not provide a basis for free will, as agents do not control probabilistic eventsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFree will skeptics argue that agents lack control over both determined and indeterminate eventsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFree will skeptics argue that all actions are a result of constitutive luck, present luck, or a combination of bothAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBelief in free will is linked to the idea that people are solely responsible for their own failures and do not deserve supportAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimA belief in free will has been shown to correlate with a 'just world belief,' the idea that people get what they deserveAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimMetaphysical libertarians believe free will exists and that determinism is not universally true regarding human agencyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimStudies have shown that a stronger belief in free will correlates with a greater acceptance of economic inequalityAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAgent-causal libertarianism posits that agents are the undetermined cause of their own actionsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimDeterminism posits that there is no free will, consciousness, learning, or evolution.AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimConsciousness is defined as awareness combined with the ability to make a choice.AgreeDisagree