Editing Incompatibilism (section)

== Hard incompatibilism ==
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Hard incompatibilism, like hard determinism, is a type of skepticism about free will. ''Hard incompatibilism'' is a term coined by [[Derk Pereboom (philosopher)|Derk Pereboom]] to designate the view that both determinism and indeterminism are incompatible with having free will and moral responsibility.<ref name="Pereboom-2001"/> Like the [[Hard determinism|hard determinist]], the hard incompatibilist holds that if determinism were true, people would not have free will. But Pereboom argues in addition that if decisions were indeterministic events, free will would also be precluded. In his view, free will is the control in action required for the [[Desert (philosophy)|desert]] aspect of moral responsibility—for people to deserve to be blamed or punished for immoral actions, and to be praised or rewarded for morally exemplary actions. He contends that if people's decisions were indeterministic events, their occurrence would not be in the control of the agent in the way required for such attributions of desert.<ref name="Pereboom-2014"/> The possibility for free will that remains is [[Libertarianism (metaphysics)|libertarian]] [[Agent causation (philosophy)|agent causation]], according to which agents as substances (thus not merely as having a role in events) can cause actions without being causally determined to do so. Pereboom argues that for empirical reasons it is unlikely that people are agent causes of this sort, and that as a result, it is likely that they lack free will.<ref name="Pereboom-2005"/>