compatibilist

English

Etymology

From compatible +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpætɪbəlɪst/

Adjective

compatibilist (comparative more compatibilist, superlative most compatibilist)

1. (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.

   Antonym: incompatibilist

   • 2007 September 29, Richard M. Glatz, “The (near) necessity of alternate possibilities for moral responsibility”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 2, →DOI:

     Such a reply is not, however, in the spirit of the compatibilist strategy of interest here.

Noun

compatibilist (plural compatibilists)

1. (philosophy) A supporter of compatibilism.

   Antonym: incompatibilist

   • 2009, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, editors, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 128:

     Moreover, suggestions that compatibilists can refute hard determinism on non-semantic grounds are misguided, building more into hard determinism than an adherent of this view needs to accept.

   • 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     To which the compatibilists replied, This is still totally artificial—choosing when to leap into an abyss or whether to turn left or right in a driving simulator tells us nothing about our free will in choosing between, say, becoming a nudist versus a Buddhist, or becoming an algologist versus an allergologist.

Further reading

• compatibilism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia