tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post7078804369932872769..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Two kinds of responsibility revisitedAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-11553966604898018362012-11-29T15:08:24.591-06:002012-11-29T15:08:24.591-06:00Chisholm's Five Criteria for Responsibility wo...Chisholm's Five Criteria for Responsibility would be good here.<br />Look at his argument for human autonomy: it's based on Aristotle's Man and the moving grass example.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11453143655434641322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-75896367993558003772012-11-18T09:48:40.685-06:002012-11-18T09:48:40.685-06:00Right, though my main point is to push the distinc...Right, though my main point is to push the distinction between the two kinds of responsibility.<br /><br />I suppose the difference between the compatibilist and the incompatibilist here is that the incompatibilist can be an internalist about action responsibility: whether you have action responsibility for A entirely depends on how you then-and-there produced A.<br /><br />Also, this differs somewhat from other kinds of manipulation arguments in being run in the case of only one kind of responsibility.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-21343411141934024952012-11-18T00:40:56.619-06:002012-11-18T00:40:56.619-06:00For in a deterministic world, every state I'm ...<i>For in a deterministic world, every state I'm in when acting is the sort of state that were I to impose it on you without any responsibility on your part, then you would not be action responsible for the actions the state gives rise to.</i><br /><br />Here is the crux. Essentially you are running a (very short) manipulation argument: if I am determined, then I am not responsible, because that is like being programmed or puppeteered or whatever. Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.com