Freedom without alternatives. In search for a basis for moral responsibility (in Polish)

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Published: Dec 1, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.34.2012.498
Keywords:
free will, moral responsibility, sense of agency, Principle of Alternative Possibilities, Leibniz, Frankfurt, Velleman, Gallagher

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Maja Kittel
Jagiellonian University
Leopold Hess
Jagiellonian University

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The problem of free will and the related problem of attributing moral responsibility are among the most discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. In the present paper we argue against the standard approach to this issue in terms of (in)compatibilism and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities. Invoking the arguments of Leibniz and some twentieth-century authors, we show that philosophers should focus on the issue of the conscious sense of agency that accompanies our voluntary actions. In the final part of the paper we point out some promising lines of research on the empirical grounds of the sense of agency conducted by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists, and advocates of the embodied cognition paradigm.

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“Freedom Without Alternatives. In Search for a Basis for Moral Responsibility (in Polish)”. 2012. Diametros, no. 34 (December): 51-78. https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.34.2012.498.
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Maja Kittel, Jagiellonian University

Maja Kittel, MA, MSc
Jagiellonian University
Department of Philosophy
ul. Grodzka 52
Pl-31-044 Kraków
e-mail: sherlock.kittel@gmail.com

Leopold Hess, Jagiellonian University

Leopold Hess, MA
Jagiellonian University
Department of Philosophy
ul. Grodzka 52
Pl-31-044 Kraków
e-mail: leopoldhess@gmail.com

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“Freedom Without Alternatives. In Search for a Basis for Moral Responsibility (in Polish)”. 2012. Diametros, no. 34 (December): 51-78. https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.34.2012.498.
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