IS REGULATIVE CONTROL A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY? Cover Image

DA LI JE REGULATIVNA KONTROLA NUŽNA ZA PRIPISIVANJE MORALNE ODGOVORNOSTI?
IS REGULATIVE CONTROL A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY?

Author(s): Marko Perić
Subject(s): Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: The principle of alternate possibilites; libertarianism; compatibilsm; moral responsibility; regulative control; guidance control; Frankfurt’s examples; Austin-style examples;

Summary/Abstract: Libertarianist concept of free will is based on the principle of alternate possibilities – standpoint which presupposes that an agent has moral responsibility only if, in the given circumstances, he could have done otherwise. The author of this paper tries to review this key principle of libertarianism, and to determine whether the access to alternate possibilities represents necessary or sufficient cause for the assessment of moral responsibility, or neither of that. Finaly, based on the consideration of famous Frankfurt’s and Austin-style examples, in this paper is defended a sort of compatibilism, and the main advantages of that kind of free will concept over libertarianism are emphasized.

  • Issue Year: 57/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-62
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian