ABSTRACT
The issue of moral responsibility is, itself, framed within the yet more general topic regarding the nature of persons. Persons are recognized as unique within the class of beings with minds. The issue of moral responsibility is, itself, framed within the yet more general topic regarding the nature of persons. Persons are recognized as unique within the class of beings with minds. Compatibilists hold that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism; incompatibilists hold that they are not. Some incompatibilists hold, not only that the two are incompatible, but that determinism is false and that some persons do have free will and are morally responsible. Blockage examples also rely upon no prior sign of the agent's action. Instead, they involve actual blockage of any path other than the neural path associated with that action. The blockage persists during the entire interval of the agent's action.
