Anti-Climacus

WELL: I feel confident saying this is just plain wrong:

"At any rate, I think where Brooks really went astray was by making the common mistake (at least it's a mistake according to me) of thinking that questions of responsibility hinge in some important way on the free will topic."

If there's anything that hard determinists, compatibilists, indeterminists and incompatibilists by and large can all agree on, it's that free will is the criterion for moral responsibility**#.

**you can argue, and they do, on what sets of facts entail free will, but they'd all agree that free will, if there were such a thing, would entail moral responsibility.

#there might be some other cases where we might 'hold someone responsible' for their action, but not in the sense that we'd ascribe moral responsibility as such.