Carving a Life from Legacy: Free Will and Manipulation in Greg Egan's "Reasons to Be Cheerful"

Many find it intuitive that having been manipulated undermines a person’s free will. Some have objected to accounts of free will like Harry Frankfurt’s (according to which free will depends only on an agent’s psychological structure at the time of action) by arguing that it is possible for manipulat...

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Autor principal:	Taylor W. Cyr
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Publicado:	Alfredo Mac Laughlin 2018
Materias:	free will personhood manipulation structuralism frankfurt greg egan asimov Philosophy (General) B1-5802 Literature (General) PN1-6790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bc536d6f5efd4448972ae3c5d4fec8a52021-11-10T20:08:56ZCarving a Life from Legacy: Free Will and Manipulation in Greg Egan's "Reasons to Be Cheerful"2573-881Xhttps://doaj.org/article/bc536d6f5efd4448972ae3c5d4fec8a52018-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jsfphil.org/vol-1/cyr-free-will-in-greg-egan/https://doaj.org/toc/2573-881XMany find it intuitive that having been manipulated undermines a person’s free will. Some have objected to accounts of free will like Harry Frankfurt’s (according to which free will depends only on an agent’s psychological structure at the time of action) by arguing that it is possible for manipulated agents, who are intuitively unfree, to satisfy Frankfurt’s allegedly sufficient conditions for freedom. Drawing resources from Greg Egan’s “Reasons to Be Cheerful” as well as from stories of psychologically sophisticated artificial intelligence (such as Isaac Asimov’s “The Bicentennial Man”), I rebut this objection to “structuralist” accounts of free will, arguing that the very possibility of free will for persons like us requires that we admit that a person can be free even when lacking control over the character from which she acts. I conclude with some implications for the freedom and personhood of artificial intelligences.Taylor W. CyrAlfredo Mac Laughlinarticlefree willpersonhoodmanipulationstructuralismfrankfurtgreg eganasimovPhilosophy (General)B1-5802Literature (General)PN1-6790ENJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, Vol 1, Pp 1-15 (2018)
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description	Many find it intuitive that having been manipulated undermines a person’s free will. Some have objected to accounts of free will like Harry Frankfurt’s (according to which free will depends only on an agent’s psychological structure at the time of action) by arguing that it is possible for manipulated agents, who are intuitively unfree, to satisfy Frankfurt’s allegedly sufficient conditions for freedom. Drawing resources from Greg Egan’s “Reasons to Be Cheerful” as well as from stories of psychologically sophisticated artificial intelligence (such as Isaac Asimov’s “The Bicentennial Man”), I rebut this objection to “structuralist” accounts of free will, arguing that the very possibility of free will for persons like us requires that we admit that a person can be free even when lacking control over the character from which she acts. I conclude with some implications for the freedom and personhood of artificial intelligences.
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title_short	Carving a Life from Legacy: Free Will and Manipulation in Greg Egan's "Reasons to Be Cheerful"
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Carving a Life from Legacy: Free Will and Manipulation in Greg Egan's "Reasons to Be Cheerful"

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