Title: Incompatibilism - Wikipedia
Headings: Incompatibilism
Incompatibilism
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Libertarianism
Hard determinism
Moral implications
Hard incompatibilism
Experimental research
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Content: Determinists sometimes assert that it is stubborn to resist scientifically motivated determinism on purely intuitive grounds about one's own sense of freedom. They reason that the history of the development of science suggests that determinism is the logical method in which reality works. William James said that philosophers (and scientists) have an "antipathy to chance." Absolute chance, a possible implication of quantum mechanics and the indeterminacy principle, implies a lack of causality. This possibility often disturbs those who assume there must be a causal and lawful explanation for all events. Moral implications
Since many believe that free will is necessary for moral responsibility, this may imply disastrous consequences for their theory of ethics . As something of a solution to this predicament, it has been suggested that, for the sake of preserving moral responsibility and the concept of ethics, one might embrace the so-called "illusion" of free will. This, despite thinking that free will does not exist according to determinism. Critics argue that this move renders morality merely another "illusion", or else that this move is simply hypocritical. The Determinist will add that, even if denying free will does mean morality is incoherent, such an unfortunate result has no effect on the truth.