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Traditional Problems of the Conditional Analysis Traditional Problems of the Conditional Analysis
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Conditionalist Compatibilism and the Analysis of Dispositions Conditionalist Compatibilism and the Analysis of Dispositions
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Recent Literature on the Analysis of Dispositions Recent Literature on the Analysis of Dispositions
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Finkish Dispositions and Lewis's Proposal Finkish Dispositions and Lewis's Proposal
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The Defense of Conditionalist Compatibilism via Lewis's Analysis The Defense of Conditionalist Compatibilism via Lewis's Analysis
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Standard Incompatibilist Rejection Standard Incompatibilist Rejection
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The Defense of Conditionalist Compatibilism: Masked Abilities The Defense of Conditionalist Compatibilism: Masked Abilities
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Internal-External Distinction Internal-External Distinction
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The Prospects for Nonconditionalist Non-Frankfurt/Strawson-Compatibilism The Prospects for Nonconditionalist Non-Frankfurt/Strawson-Compatibilism
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Notes Notes
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8 Compatibilism Without Frankfurt: Dispositional Analyses of free Will
Get accessBernard Berofsky is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University. His principal areas of interest are free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of mind, and metaphysical topics, including causation and the self. His major works are: Liberation from Self, Freedom from Necessity, Determinism, Free Will and Determinism (an anthology) and numerous articles in major philosophical periodicals. He is a member of the executive committee of the editorial board of the Journal of Philosophy and has taught at the University of Michigan, Vassar College, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
This article considers recent debates about the adequacy of conditional analyses of freedom and classical compatibilism. It begins with a discussion of objections to conditional or hypothetical analyses of freedom that began to surface in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses four such objections to conditional analyses, some of which can be successfully rebutted by classical compatibilists, but several of which present serious problems. These problems, the article argues, have led over the past fifty years to the abandonment of conditional analyses of freedom by many “new” compatibilists inspired by the work of Harry Frankfurt, P. F. Strawson, and others. The discussion notes that compatibilists must look beyond conditional accounts of freedom if they are to fully blunt the force of incompatibilist arguments.
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