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Situationism and Moral Responsibility: Free Will In Fragments
Decomposing the Will (2013)
  • Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco
Abstract

This chapter considers whether situationist social psychology impugns accounts of responsible agency that emphasize responsiveness to reasons. It also considers a similar threat arising from the literature on automaticity. The first half of the chapter argues that reasons-responsiveness accounts are genuinely threatened by situationism and automaticity literatures. The second half argues that these threats can largely be met, but that doing so requires abandoning a suite of familiar assumptions and expectations about responsible agency. The chapter goes on to advance a new account of responsible agency that accommodates a variety of worries about situationism and automaticity.

Publication Date
2013
Editor
Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, & Tillmann Vierkant
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation Information
Manuel Vargas. "Situationism and Moral Responsibility: Free Will In Fragments" Decomposing the Will (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vargas/14/