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    It is not the case that Hard incompatibilism is a more promising skeptical strategy than hard determinism.

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    • 1.If determinism is true, compatibilist free will suffices for moral responsibility, making hard incompatibilism unnecessary rather than more promising.
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    • 2.Hard incompatibilism's advantage over hard determinism presupposes that incompatibilism is correct, but compatibilists like Frankfurt and Dennett have given strong reasons to reject that presupposition.
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    • 3.A skeptical strategy that depends on winning the compatibilism debate is not more strategically secure than one that depends on winning the determinism debate.
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    • 1.Hard incompatibilism must defeat both compatibilism and libertarianism simultaneously, making it dialectically more burdensome, not less, than hard determinism.
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    • 2.Pereboom's manipulation arguments and luck objections to libertarianism have well-developed responses from Clarke and Mele, leaving the anti-libertarian flank genuinely contested.
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    • 1.Determinism may well be false.
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    • 2.Hard incompatibilism argues that the kind of free will required for desert-based moral responsibility is incompatible with both the truth and the falsity of determinism.
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    • 3.Hard incompatibilism's skeptical conclusions do not depend on the truth of determinism.
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