Desperately Seeking Sourcehood (w/ David Glick) In a recent essay, Oisín Deery and Eddy Nahmias (2017) utilize internventionism to develop an account of causal sourcehood in order to defend compatibilism about moral responsibility from manipulation arguments. In this paper, we criticize Deery and Nahmias’ analysis of sourcehood by drawing a distinction between two forms of causal invariance that can come into conflict on their account. We conclude that any attempt to resolve this conflict will either result in counterintuitive attributions of moral responsibility or will undermine their response to manipulation arguments. We conclude that while Deery and Nahmias’ response to manipulation arguments is ultimately unsuccessful, interventionism is not without import for matters of moral responsibility.
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Thu Sep 13, 2018 5am – 6:30am Coordinated Universal Time
