PHIL 2260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Compatibilism, Determinism
10 May 2016
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Corrado"s justice principle a lot of people have strong intuition into a claim. Ex: johnny being drugged, he doesn"t know it, drinks it, drives, gets dizzy, runs someone over in the process of pulling over. Principle a someone who, through no fault of her own, could not help breaking the law should not be punished. Utilitarian theory of excuse committed to related to punishment, you excuse when punishing doesn"t promote overall happiness. According to corrado, a utilitarian would respond to jones 1 and jones 2: 1 excuse (technology implant you could not in principle deter in this case because this tech overrides your upbringing) 2 don"t excuse (raised to think that way the threat of deterrence could reasonably work/impact on this person) Corrado says impressive story in spite of jones 1 and 2. Compatibilists says that i. we are determined, everything is determined, and ii. our being determined is compatible with being held responsible under certain circumstances.
