Richard Taylor Determinism Analysis

After centuries of reflection, it seems impossible to put to rest the matter of free will. This issue of free will remains because of its connection to moral responsibility. What features constitutes moral responsibility? Do we possess these features? These questions about moral responsibility are interconnected to questions about public policy and justice. Hence the issue of moral responsibility has practical as well as theoretical significance. Moreover, recent works on free will like Richard Taylor’s Freedom and Determinism have caused progression on the topic of moral responsibility. Like Richard Taylor I want to consolidate gains and push forward a formulation of adequate features for moral responsibility. I will accomplish this by analyzing Richard Taylor’s assertion that determinism is inconsistent with the possibility of deliberating about one 's own future actions. I shall argue that Richard Taylor’s notion of libertarian freedom of an individual is false. An individual lacks the libertarian freedom to deliberate about one’s own future actions because there are causal factors from the past that sometimes necessitate a particular choice be chosen.. In Freedom and …show more content…
This notion simply postulates a power that meets some conditions for free will without making plausible how an individual could have such an amazing power. It can be defined that “causings” are the producing of events, rather than what are produced. For instance in the case of an individual causal process consisting of an individual, which will be F, causing event G being caused by some further event, E, surely this can consist only in E 's causing F. From this example, I cannot but regard this as reflecting an evident, general truth about causation. This truth shows that an individual’s lacks the power to directly cause an event by