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    Interpreting determinism as bypassing and inferring the l... — Carmelics
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    Interpreting determinism as bypassing and inferring the lack of free will and responsibility from that interpretation is rational.

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    • 1.If people's mental states have no impact on their behavior, that is an excellent reason to think people are not morally responsible.
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    • 2.If determinism means bypassing (mental states do not cause behavior), then mental states have no impact on behavior.
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    • 1.Determinism does not entail bypassing: causal chains running through mental states are still causal chains in which mental states are efficacious.
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    • 2.Compatibilists from Hume to Frankfurt show that 'caused behavior' and 'mental-state-caused behavior' are fully consistent with determinism.
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    • 3.Conflating causal determination with causal bypassing is a conceptual error, not a rational inference from determinism's actual content.
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    • 1.Experimental philosophy research (Nahmias et al. 2005) demonstrates that bypassing intuitions stem from misreading determinism, not from determinism itself.
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    • 2.If a philosophical inference is grounded in a systematic empirical misunderstanding of the premise, that inference is not epistemically rational regardless of its logical form.
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    Of course, if people’s mental states have no impact on their behavior, that is an excellent reason to think that people aren’t morally responsible for their behaviors. So, if people interpret determinism to mean bypassing, it is perfectly rational for them to infer the lack of free will and responsibility from bypassing. However, it seems to be a flat-out confusion to interpret determinism as bypassing. Even if determinism is true, our behavior might be caused (not bypassed) by our mental states
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