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Freedom and Determinism

Freedom and Determinism. Libertarianism: Part 1. The Incompatibility Argument. Determinism is true. If (1), then the Freedom Principle is false. [So] The Free Will Principle is false. The Incompatibility Argument. Hard Determinism : The Freedom Principle is false.

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Freedom and Determinism

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  1. Freedom and Determinism Libertarianism: Part 1

  2. The Incompatibility Argument • Determinism is true. • If (1), then the Freedom Principle is false. • [So] The Free Will Principle is false.

  3. The Incompatibility Argument • Hard Determinism: The Freedom Principle is false. • Soft Determinism: Determinism is compatible with the Freedom Principle. • Libertarianism: Determinism is false.

  4. Libertarianism Thou Great First Cause, least understood! Who all my sense confined To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from ill: And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. Pope, “The Universal Prayer”

  5. Simple Libertarianism • An event is undetermined iff the past, together with the laws of nature, does not determine whether or not it will occur. • Simple Libertarianism: (i) There are some undetermined events and (ii) an action is free iff it is undetermined. • Objection: The randomness worry

  6. Volitional Libertarianism • Volitional Libertarianism: (i) There are some undetermined events and (ii) an action is free iff it is an undetermined choice (or caused by an undetermined choice). • Objection: The revised randomness worry

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