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Free Will and Determinism
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What is hard determinism?Show answer
Hard determinists accept determinism and conclude that free will and moral responsibility are illusions. If no one could have acted otherwise, no one truly deserves blame or praise. Baron d'Holbach defended this in the eighteenth century, and modern hard incompatibilists like Derk Pereboom argue we should give up the notion of basic desert while keeping forward-looking practices like rehabilitation. The strength of the view is its honesty about causation; its cost is that it overturns deeply held practices of holding people accountable.
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