Free Will A Contemporary Introduction

66 Classical Compatibilism and Incompatibilism This means that, in one very strict sense, there can be no science of man. If we ...

Classical Compatibilism and Incompatibilism 67 might not have given the exact same initial conditions. Admittedly, there is room ...

68 Classical Compatibilism and Incompatibilism Suggestions for Further Reading Those interested in the historical figures from t ...

Classical Compatibilism and Incompatibilism 69 On Reid, see: Rowe, William. 1991. Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality. Ithaca, N ...

70 Classical Compatibilism and Incompatibilism 8 Some might object to the expression, “doing what one wants,” thinking it better ...

Classical Compatibilism and Incompatibilism 71 19 See, for instance, C.A. Campbell’s direct reply to Schlick, arguing that Schli ...

4 The Debate over the Consequence Argument We turn in this chapter to one of the three most significant influences on con- tempo ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 73 4.1. Reflecting on the Classical Controversy over the Ability to Do Otherwise The cl ...

74 The Debate over the Consequence Argument To understand the resources available to the compatibilist, consider what the thesis ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 75 rather than the other had claim to a greater preponderance of reason on their side. ...

76 The Debate over the Consequence Argument If a person has no power over whether a certain fact obtains, and if she also has no ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 77 Just as modus ponens allows us to infer q from the two propositions, p, and p materi ...

78 The Debate over the Consequence Argument to act in such a way that, if S were to so act, the propositions describing the past ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 79 4.3. Strategies for Resisting the Consequence Argument The soundness of the Conseque ...

80 The Debate over the Consequence Argument the Principle of the Fixity of the Laws. The compatibilist position currently under ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 81 CA sense. All that the compatibilist needs to invoke is BA, the weaker notion of abi ...

82 The Debate over the Consequence Argument would have governed what happened just prior to his choosing to eat steak. Hence, si ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 83 might be extrapolated from cases like René’s knowledge of Gassendi has been called t ...

84 The Debate over the Consequence Argument Barack Obama, for instance, that Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Nothing about his agenc ...

The Debate over the Consequence Argument 85 determinism per se. The argument tells us nothing about deterministic worlds in whic ...