causal

Free agents distinguished by usurpable degrees of freedom

What removes freedom from someone is if their degrees of freedom don't exist, are mechanically blocked, or have been usurped by another agent (the marionette and puppeteer case); since determinism and indeterminism make no difference to whether degrees of freedom are blocked or usurped, they make no difference to the categorization that grounds moral responsibility.

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Speaker

Dan Dennett

Evidence Quote

determinism and indeterminism make no difference to that categorization and it's that categorization which makes the moral difference

Source

39 - Free Will RevisitedMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:25:04 AM

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