compatibilist

comparative more compatibilist · superlative most compatibilist

1. human sciencesOf, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.

   Such a reply is not, however, in the spirit of the compatibilist strategy of interest here.

   2007 September 29, Richard M. Glatz, “The (near) necessity of alternate possibilities for moral responsibility”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 2, →DOI

   Antonyms: incompatibilist

plural compatibilists

1. human sciencesA supporter of compatibilism.

   Moreover, suggestions that compatibilists can refute hard determinism on non-semantic grounds are misguided, building more into hard determinism than an adherent of this view needs to accept.

   2009, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, editors, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 128

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   To which the compatibilists replied, This is still totally artificial—choosing when to leap into an abyss or whether to turn left or right in a driving simulator tells us nothing about our free will in choosing between, say, becoming a nudist versus a Buddhist, or becoming an algologist versus an allergologist.

   2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN

   Antonyms: incompatibilist