compatibilist

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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.

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