Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Experimental Philosophy and Moral Responsibility
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3112-0673
2022 (English)In: Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility / [ed] Dana Kay Nelkin; Derek Pereboom, Oxford University Press, 2022Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Can experimental philosophy help us answer central questions about the nature of moral responsibility, such as the question of whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism? According to reasoning behind the Condorcet Jury Theorem, it might: if individual judges independently track the truth with even modest reliability, this reliability can quickly aggregate as the number of judges goes up. This paper asks whether preconditions for such aggregation hold with respect to folk attributions of responsibility to deterministic scenarios, and whether it has consequences for philosophical method. Section 1 introduces the basic assumptions behind the CJT. Section 2 looks at the distribution of responsibility attributions in recent empirical studies. Section 3 looks at evidence concerning folk reliability, including evidence supporting two error theories for folk compatibilism—the No Matter What and Indeterminist Intrusion hypotheses—and one error theory for folk incompatiblism—the Bypassing hypotheses. It is argued that data undermines the first two error theories and suggests that only a limited class of judgments are subject to the third. Section 4 explains how conditional error theories can change the support of a position without begging the question. Section 5 asks whether the intricacies of the compatibilism question should lead us to deny that the folk are even modestly reliable in their judgments. Section 6 suggests that even if they are, their judgments will often not be independent enough to add much to the judgments of professional philosophers. Section 7 concludes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2022.
Keywords [en]
Experimental philosophy, moral responsibility, Condorcet Jury Theorem, philosophical methodology, Bypassing, Indeterminist intrusion
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Practical Philosophy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184968DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190679309.013.30ISBN: 9780190679309 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-184968DiVA, id: diva2:1466387
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2015-01488Available from: 2020-09-11 Created: 2020-09-11 Last updated: 2023-10-20Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Björnsson, Gunnar

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Björnsson, Gunnar
By organisation
Department of Philosophy
Philosophy

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 287 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf