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1. Development of the Argument 1. Development of the Argument
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2. Compatibilist Responses 2. Compatibilist Responses
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3. Strict Ability 3. Strict Ability
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4. Replies and Rejoinders 4. Replies and Rejoinders
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5. The Diodoran Strategy 5. The Diodoran Strategy
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6. Strict Ability and the Closure Principles 6. Strict Ability and the Closure Principles
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7. Strengthening the Unavoidability Operator 7. Strengthening the Unavoidability Operator
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8. Conclusion: The Compatibilist's Task 8. Conclusion: The Compatibilist's Task
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Notes Notes
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6 A Master Argument for Incompatibilism?
Get accessTomis Kapitan is professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University. He has also taught at Birzeit University, East Carolina University, the American University of Beirut, and Bogazici University. He is the author of several articles dealing with the free will problem, practical thinking, propositional attitudes, indexical reference, logical form, the semantics of variables, abduction, terrorism, self-determination, and political rhetoric. He has also edited or coedited three volumes, including The Phenomeno-Logic of the I (1999), and coauthored The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Philosophical Essays on Self-Determination, Terrorism, and the One-State Solution (2008).
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
This article, from a compatiblist viewpoint, argues that the Consequence Argument fails to prove incompatibilism, and develops criticisms of it that, for the most part, are already in the existing literature. It first reviews various formulations of the Consequence Argument and the criticisms made against it over the past three decades. It then considers possible compatibilist strategies for answering the argument. It examines the Diodoran strategy and concludes that it fails to generate a valid closure rule of unavoidability that can justify the reasoning of the minimal inference pattern. Of the closure rules that are valid, either they cannot be mated to corresponding true premises, or they are unable to generate the desired conclusion from its premises.
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