Harry Frankfurt
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Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, R
Frankfurt in 2017
Compatibilism
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Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent. The opposing belief, that the thesis
Harry Frankfurt
…intuition is to say nonetheless that this feature of the situation does not prevent that person from being morally responsible). Frankfurt's view of compatibilism is perhaps the most influential version of compatibilism, developing the view that to be free is to have one's actions conform to one's more reflective…
Arthur Schopenhauer
Schrödinger's door: Saying "there may be a person behind that door" merely expresses ignorance about the one, determined reality.
Compatibilism has much in common with "hard determinism", including moral systems and a belief in determinism itself.