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John Martin Fischer is best known for the view of "semi-compatibilism" - the idea that moral responsibility is compatible with determinism, whether free will is or is not compatible with determinism.

For example, John Martin Fischer's Semi-compatibilism assumes with Frankfurt that we can have moral responsibility, even if determinism (and/or indeterminism) is incompatible with free will.

John Fischer

John Martin Fischer, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside



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