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Compatibilist's Challenges on Encountering with the Zygote Argument of Manipulation

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Professor, Department of Ethics, University of Qom, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate of Ethics, University of Qom, Iran

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In compatibilists believe that we cannot act freely and be morally responsible for an action in a deterministic world, while compatibilists don’t deny the possibility of free action and moral responsibility for the agent, and they believe that we can find some kind of compatibility between moral responsibility and causal determination. This article will analyze Alfred Mele's zygote argument of manipulation, which is an argument in critique of compatibilism between moral responsibility and the deterministic world. Manipulation argument is an argument based on an agent's intuition of a situation in which the agent is under the control of another person or force. It wants to show that an agent in a manipulated situation, despite satisfying the compatibilists conditions, is not morally responsible for her action, and she is like the agent in a deterministic world.

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Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Volume 18, Issue 49 - Serial Number 49
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vol. 18, issue 49, Winter 2024
December 2024
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