PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Moe Williams, Compatibilism, General Idea
29 Oct 2020
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A free action is one that is caused by a person"s beliefs and desires. Hard determinism: free will and determinism are incompatible and determinism holds so there is no free will. Libertarianism: free will and determinism are incompatible and there is free will. Compatibilism: free will and determinism are compatible, and there is free will. To make sense of this, we need to revise/clarify the notion of a free action (just like we need to do with the notions of contact" and man") The general idea: a free action is one caused in the right way. This helps to make sense of the difference between someone who has a gun to their head and. You could be hypnotized to want to harm a person. This helps with the hypnosis case, but it"s circular. It is also not clear that we have to freely choose our desires in order to be free.
