Description
Joe Saunders presented at this seminar.
A Kant views every human action as either entirely determined by natural necessity or entirely free. In viewing human action this way, it is unclear how he can account for degrees of responsibility. In this paper, I consider various attempts to accommodate degrees of responsibility within a Kantian framework, but argue that none of them work. In the end, I claim that transcendental idealism constrains Kant such that he cannot provide an adequate account of either agency or responsibility.