Fischer’s Semi-compatibilism

This article mainly discusses the moral responsibility concept of Fischer’s semi-compatibilism,showing the development history of compatibilism and incompatibilism.It shows the current western debate between free will,moral responsibility,and determinism.It also opens up a new area of discussion for us,that is,a historical and practical view of moral responsibility.Fischer’s argument begins with the Frankfurt-style case.He argues that the Frankfurt-style case shows that the possibility of alternate choices is not a necessary condition for moral responsibility.And by exploring the actual causal sequence,it is concluded that moral responsibility contains guidance control and regulative control.Only guidance control is related to moral responsibility.He absorbed the responsibility concept of the compatibilism of the reactive attitudes,and unified the responsibility for actions,consequences,and omissions with guidance control.Then he established a complete reactive attitudes system of responsibility.At the same time,he made concessions to determinism,acknowledging that free will and determinism are incompatible.The author refutes two typical critiques of the Frankfurt-style case--“improper presupposition” and“flickering freedom,” thereby laying a solid foundation for Fisher’s theory.At the same time,an amendment to Fisher’s moderate rational response mechanism of guided control is introduced,which promotes Fisher’s attribution system of moral responsibility.By defending Fisher,the author argues that the conflict between free will and decision can be transformed into whether moral responsibility and determinism conflict.This paper is divided into four parts.The first chapter is the introduction,which mainly describes the source of the problem and the research review at home and abroad.The second chapter mainly introduces the current academic discussion on the relationship between free will and determinism.Research Fisher’s theoretical point of view to make a theoretical foreshadowing.The third chapter will reconstruct Fisher’s theoretical construction of moral philosophy based on semi-compatibility theory in detail.The fourth chapter will show Fisher’s point of view and other scholars’ arguments and refutations,which includes the defense and promotion of Fisher’s theory.