compatibilist
English edit
Etymology edit
compatible + -ist
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
compatibilist (comparative more compatibilist, superlative most compatibilist)
- (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- Antonym: incompatibilist
- 2007 September 29, Richard M. Glatz, “The (near) necessity of alternate possibilities for moral responsibility”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 2, :
- Such a reply is not, however, in the spirit of the compatibilist strategy of interest here.
Noun edit
compatibilist (plural compatibilists)
- (philosophy) A supporter of compatibilism.
- Antonym: incompatibilist
- 2009, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, editors, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 128:
- 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.
- 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
- 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.
Further reading edit
- compatibilism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia