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Pessimists, Pollyannas, and the New Compatibilism

2017· book· en· W4248245330 on OpenAlexaff
Paul Russell

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2017
Typebook
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCompatibilismEpistemologyIncompatibilismAgency (philosophy)PhilosophyFree willPessimismDeterminism

Abstract

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This chapter examines a number of contemporary compatibilist views on freedom and responsibility. The discussion is organized around themes from Daniel Dennett’s influential compatibilist work, <italic>Elbow Room</italic> (1984), and in the light of these themes the chapter also considers a number of other related compatibilist views (including the reason-responsive views of John M. Fischer and Mark Ravizza). The incompatibilist pessimism that Dennett challenges is essentially Pascalian and turns, according to Dennett, on analogies and metaphors that are more misleading than illuminating. In reply to Dennett and other like-minded compatibilist optimists, this chapter argues that, whatever the merits of reason-responsive views, we must still confront worries about ultimacy and the limits of agency. Even if the worries here are not Pascalian, they provide no basis for pollyannaish optimism

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.663
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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