Date Thesis Awarded
5-2010
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
Philosophy
Advisor
Matthew C. Haug
Committee Members
Neal Tognazzini
Michael Green
Abstract
This essay examines three of the intuitions underlying the contemporary debate concerning free will and moral responsibility. Those intuitions concern a requirement of control, of alternate possibilities, and of ultimate or original control, respectively. The author, arguing from the assumption that moral responsibility is logically possible, examines, clarifies and revises those three intuitions in order to allow that possibility. He also examines various conceptions of the self, argues that they do not allow for the possibility of moral responsibility, and offers his own account which, he argues, does allow for moral responsibility.
Recommended Citation
Homer, Daniel Carl, "Clarifying Intuitions about Moral Responsibility and the Self" (2010). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 670.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/670
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.