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#RussellHoward showing his #resistance to the state of the country and the world today. Thanks Russ, more ppl should take their responsibility to change public discourse.
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#RussellHoward showing his #resistance to the state of the country and the world today. Thanks Russ, more ppl should take their responsibility to change public discourse.
#analysis #debate #SystemChange #MoralResponsibility #ClassWar #press #opinion
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It’s essential to oppose efforts to dismantle USAID on humanitarian grounds.
America has the means to support global health and stability; failing to do so would have dire consequences.
In Amsterdam, a man hears a scream and a splash. Unsure, he continues on. But later, he realizes someone fell into the canal, a victim of his indifference. This echoes Albert Camus' "The Fall," reminding us of our moral responsibilities. Just as many ignored the plight of the Jews, are we not also turning a blind eye to preventable suffering today? Leaders and individuals alike must act to prevent needless tragedies. #TheFall #MoralResponsibility
Kiinnostaako moraalinen vastuu?
Jos, niin sitten lykästi. Matthew Talbert on uusinut SEP-entrynsä, joka kattaa aluetta upeasti, mukaan lukien tarpeelliset rajaukset, koplaukset ja kurantit kiistat, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/
Sopii hyvin vaikkapa viikonlopun elokuva-kattauksen sijaan. 😉
#morality #moralResponsibility #ethics #sep #update #revision #vastuu #moraali #etiikka #filosofia
Maybe the free will debate is really about the scope of causal influences on our decisions.
With Daniel Dennett’s death, a lot of podcasters have been replaying his interviews, many of which concern his stance as a free will compatibilist. That and a recent Mind Chat episode focused on Kevin Mitchell’s strong emergence understanding of free will, left me mulling this subject again.
Cards on the table, my stance is pretty similar to Dennett’s. I’m a compatibilist who sees free will as the capacity to act with forethought, to simulate possible and probable consequences of an action and take them into account when making decisions. That ability makes the causal factors in our actions broader than the immediate circumstances, leaving something to judge aside from those circumstances, and making social responsibility a coherent and useful concept.
Of course, that isn’t libertarian free will, the putative ability that provides a freedom from the overall laws of physics. Often this is discussed in terms of determinism, with the idea that maybe if the laws have some kind of randomness in them, a level of indeterminism, it allows for an ability to have acted differently even with the same history of the universe up that point. But I can’t see how this works for social responsibility. If I can blame the deterministic laws of physics for my actions, why can’t I just as well blame the indeterministic laws?
And adding fundamental randomness actually reduces the type of freedom that makes responsibility reasonable. We want my actions based on my nature and experiences. If randomness undermines that, then how does it make sense to judge me for them? All randomness does is frustrate any ability to predict actions. But given the complexity of the processes involved with those decisions, there’s no feasible way to do that anyway.
No, for libertarian free will to be coherent, it requires that the causes of my actions transcend the causal framework of the universe, to be broader than or orthogonal to it. Which is why this type of free will is usually coupled with some form of mind-body dualism, that the mind is something different in kind. It also fits with religious traditions that involve an ultimate judge. For judging us to make sense, at least some of the causes of our actions have to be outside of that judge’s created framework. (Whether that makes sense theologically, I’ll leave to others to figure out.)
It’s also worth noting that this holds if we’re in a Matrix type simulation where our minds exist independent of the actual simulation. If the Matrix Architect judges Agent Smith, it has to be as a part of the simulation going wrong, whereas from his view actual humans like Neo have an independent will. From the Architect’s perspective, Neo’s mind is of a different kind from his body in the simulation. (David Chalmers makes a similar point in Reality+.)
So maybe the real distinction between free will libertarians and compatibilists is the scope of influences we regard as necessary for the label “free will”. Hard determinists tend to agree with libertarians on this, that the scope of that freedom must transcend physics (or at least standard physics). It’s just that hard determinists regard that as non-existent. Compatibilists generally agree with hard determinists on that non-existence, but disagree that smaller scopes of influence aren’t meaningful. It may not be for God or the simulation owner, but should be enough for human judges.
Unless of course I’m missing something?
https://selfawarepatterns.com/2024/05/18/the-scope-of-free-will/
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Feddites who live in countries with elections, do you generally feel morally responsible for your government’s actions? Why/Whynot?
Exaggerated and made up example of what I’m curious about:... #ask #moralresponsibility #groupresponsibility #individualresponsibility #AskKbin
Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will
#BertramMalle - Big Questions in #FreeWill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqdU13JJNY&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
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#RichardSwinburne - How #FreeWill Probes #Mind and #Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKlU7I0sDI&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMind #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #Will #Intentionality #IntentionalState #IntentionalStates #Determinism #Compatibilism #Morality #MoralResponsibility #Causality #SystemState #StateCondition #StateConditions #CausalSufficiency #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
Computing and Moral Responsibility - Revised SEP entry
#philosophy #moralresponsibility #computing
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-responsibility/?s=09#Concl
My work is discussed in this new @WIRED article by John Danaher | The Case for Outsourcing Morality to AI: Human judgement is notoriously fallible. As AI infiltrates more aspects of society, maybe some “responsibility gaps” are a good thing | https://www.wired.com/story/philosophy-artificial-intelligence-responsibility-gap/ | #FreeWill #FreeWillSkepticism #MoralResponsibility #Morality #AI @philosophy #society
Free Will? A Documentary | I am one of the many philosophers and scientists interviewed in this new documentary, released just today. Also features Derk Pereboom, Robert Kane, Daniel Dennett, Heather Berlin, Massimo Pigliucci, Sean Carroll, Dan Baker, Jerry Coyne, etc. https://www.freewilldocumentary.com/watch | @philosophy #Philosophy #FreeWill #MoralResponsibility #Morality #Metaphysics #determinism #indeterminism #compatibilism #libertarianism #FreeWillSkepticism
#RoyBaumeister - Is #FreeWill The Key to #Consciousness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTkIjyWQcg&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
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Great #CFH panel at #aha2023 on #RespectabilityPolitics and #MoralResponsibility in the #history of #HealthintheUSA, from the #18thcentury through the #AIDS epidemic and #COVID19. Thanks to Andrew Wehrman, Aishah Scott, and Jonathan Riddle for your research. @histodons #histodons
#WalterSinnottArmstrong - How #Humans Differ From Other #Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQNljUBjq3I&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Human #Animal #Biology #Taxonomy #Humanity #Personhood #Mind #Consciousness #Morality #MoralResponsibility #FreeWill #Soul #Souls #TheSoul #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
Just out: Thom Brooks reviews my book in the latest issue of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice | Gregg D. Caruso: Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice | Unfortunately, it's behind a paywall! If anyone has access, can you please send me a PDF? | #philosophy #retributivism #FreeWill #MoralResponsibility #punishment #criminology #CrimLaw #PublicHealth #CriminalJustice @philosophy
ICYMI, Moral Responsibility Reconsidered by Gregg Caruso and Derk Pereboom | http://nebula.wsimg.com/7fded12950a4b029ee683a12fa771b4b?AccessKeyId=57C0F200619988621A8D&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 | #OpenAccess #Philosophy #FreeWill #MoralResponsibility #MoralPsychology @philosophy #Blame #Anger #Punishment
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