PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Compatibilism, Determinism, Incompatibilism
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In his book free will", joe campbell describes the problem of free will as the free will dilemma". Here is what he sees the central problem to be: if determinism is true, then no one has free will, if indeterminism is true, then no one has free will, therefore, no one has free will. Determinism is the claim that past events together with the laws of nature bring about all future events. In other words, all action is determined to go one specific way, there are no choices in acting other than the way one will act. Given the laws of nature and your past you can only act one way or make only one decision. Some say this isn"t a threat to free will because they think that the concept of free will is compatible with the thesis of determinism, these people are called compatiblists.
