A Dual process model for incompatibilist and compatibilist folk intuitions: an experimental philosophical approach to moral responsibility and determinism

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Dural Özer, Özge

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Intuitions are fallible and changeable. Experimental philosophy deals with these conflicting and fallible intuitions. In this study, we are questioning why people have conflicting intuitions about free will/moral responsibility, namely compatibilist and incompatibilist intuitions. Moving on with this question, we propose a dual process model in which reason and emotions interact. To support our model, we replicated a previous study (Nichols and Knobe, 2007) with some experimental set ups, not present in the original study. We believe our experimental evidence supports our dual interacting-process model proposing the interaction of reason and emotions.

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Free will and determinism., Intuition., Ethics.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12623068/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28028

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. Dural Özer, “A Dual process model for incompatibilist and compatibilist folk intuitions: an experimental philosophical approach to moral responsibility and determinism,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2019.