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**Philosophical horror.** Dr. Lena Hart joins Site-7, a classified facility where "translators" interface with superintelligent AI systems that perceive patterns beyond human cognitive bandwidth. When colleagues break after exposure to recursive …
If the universe is deterministic—every event caused by prior events in an unbroken causal chain stretching back to the Big Bang—how can anyone be morally responsible for their actions?
On Moral Responsibility tackles this ancient problem and proposes …
This essay, written in 2012, asks a question that still haunts me: Why do we hold people morally responsible?
People throughout history have believed they belong to a special categorical class: persons. What makes persons special? Their …
A philosophical exploration of free will, determinism, and moral agency. What does it mean to be a moral agent? Can we truly be held responsible for our actions in a deterministic universe?