RT Article
T1 Moral Shallowness, Metaphysical Megalomania, and Compatibilist-Fatalism
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 16
IS 1
SP 173
OP 188
A1 Cuypers, Stefaan E.
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785697145
AB In the debate on free will and moral responsibility, Saul Smilansky is a hard source-incompatibilist who objects to source-compatibilism for being morally shallow. After criticizing John Martin Fischer’s too optimistic response to this objection, this paper dissipates the charge that compatibilist accounts of ultimate origination are morally shallow by appealing to the seriousness of contingency in the framework of, what Paul Russell calls, compatibilist-fatalism. Responding to the objection from moral shallowness thus drives a wedge between optimists and fatalists within the compatibilist camp.
K1 Ultimate origination
K1 Saul Smilansky
K1 Paul Russell
K1 Incompatibilism
K1 John Martin Fischer
K1 Fatalism
K1 Compatibilism
DO 10.1007/s10677-011-9318-3