Strawson contra Strawson: Moral Responsibility and Semi-Compatibilism

• Main Author: Chen, Melvin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Semi-compatibilism; Metaethics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82141; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41116
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper addresses the Basic Argument in favour of incompatibilism, both in its Strawsonian form and in its weakened form (the CDA). After examining the worries raised by this argument, I will defend a version of semi-compatibilism that is motivated by a narrative theory of the self, arguing that...