Posted: Aug 23, 2017 1:29 pm
zoon wrote:GrahamH wrote:zoon wrote:
People are sometimes praised or rewarded for morally approved behaviour, which does imply free will as much as blaming and punishment, but it's not usually such a contentious issue. As you say, it's likely to happen where there's a likelihood that they or others will not behave so well, it's an attempt to influence future actions either of the agent or of onlookers.
You are right, and those cases that stand out are where the agent does something we did not predict. It's when we don't predict that free will figures.