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    Challenges→Hard incompatibilism is a more promising skeptical strategy than hard determinism.

    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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    Dennett, Daniel(as the creator of the intentional-stance framework)
    A contemporary American philosopher who studies the mind and consciousness, known for arguing that we can understand how brains work by treating them as if they have beliefs and desires, even without knowing all the details of how neurons fire.
    Frankfurt, Harry(as the originator of hierarchical mesh theory)
    A 20th-century American philosopher who developed influential theories about free will, desire, and what makes us responsible for our actions.
    compatibilism(Offered as a response to the traditional problem of free will)
    The philosophical position that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism being true
    hard determinism(distinguished from incompatibilism more broadly)
    The thesis that determinism is true and because of this we are never responsible for anything

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    hard incompatibilism(free will debate)
    The position that free will required for basic desert moral responsibility is incompatible with both determinism and indeterminism, leading to moral responsibility skepticism
    incompatibilism(The passage questions whether survey respondents who endorse incompatibilist conclusions genuinely hold incompatibilist views.)
    The view that free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism.
    presupposition(Used to distinguish conditions required for an obligation from the grounds of the obligation)
    A necessary condition for something (such as an obligation) that is not itself part of the ground of that thing

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