In defense of flip-flopping

Synthese 199 (5-6):13907-13924 (2021)
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Abstract

Some incompatibilists about free will or moral responsibility and determinism would abandon their incompatibilism were they to learn that determinism is true. But is it reasonable to flip-flop in this way? In this article, we contend that it is and show what follows. The result is both a defense of a particular incompatibilist strategy and a general framework for assessing other cases of flip-flopping.

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Andrew M. Bailey
Yale-NUS College
Amy Seymour
Fordham University

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