hard determinist

comparative more hard determinist · superlative most hard determinist

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

   Pereboom goes on to add that, in a hard determinist world, an agent's moral worth would be determined by, for example, the degree to which they regulate their behaviour in accordance with moral reasons, […]

   2009, Daniel Cohen, Nick Trakakis, editors, Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 48

   Synonyms: incompatibilist

plural hard determinists

1. human sciencesA supporter of hard determinism.

   While the hard determinist understands an interrelated set of normative terms on the basis of self-formation, the compatibilist understands a homophonic set on the basis of a meaning of control without self-formation.

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