Largely due to the popular allegation that contemporary science has uncovered indeterminism in the deepest known levels of physical reality, the debate as to whether humans have moral freedom, the sort of freedom on which moral responsibility depends, has put aside to some extent the traditional worry over whether determinism is true. As I argue in this article, however, there are powerful proofs for both chronological determinism and necessitarianism, forms of determinism that pose the most penetrative threat to human moral freedom. My ultimate hope is to show that, despite the robust case against human moral freedom that can be made without even relying on them, chronological determinism and necessitarianism should be regarded with renewed urgency.

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决定论的理性主义辩护

很大程度上是由于普遍的指控，即当代科学已经在物理现实的最深层次上发现了不确定性，关于人类是否具有道德自由，道德责任所依赖的那种自由的争论在某种程度上搁置了传统的忧虑。确定性是否正确。但是，正如我在本文中所论证的那样，按时间顺序进行的决定论和必然主义都有确凿的证据，这两种形式的决定论对人类的道德自由构成了最深远的威胁。我的最终希望是表明，尽管有充分的理由反对甚至不依赖人类的道德自由，但仍应重新考虑按时间顺序确定的决定论和必然主义。