ABSTRACT
Suppose we don’t have free will? So what? Why do we care? Again, one of the main reasons we care about whether we have
free will is that we care about moral responsibility. We care about whether we are blameworthy or praiseworthy for our choices and actions. Most people agree that moral responsibility requires some sort of free will. It does not seem appropriate to blame or praise someone if he was not free to act as he did. But as we saw in the last chapter, there is a lot of disagreement about whether this kind of free will is compatible with determinism. Can we have the kind of freedom required for moral responsibility if determinism is true? What has to be true in order for someone to be morally responsible? What kind of freedom is required?
