Philosophy › Section F · Metaphysics › Topic F.7
Free will
When you choose, it feels as if more than one future is open to you. But if every event has causes that stretch back before your birth, can any choice really be up to you? The free will debate sets determinism against our practices of praise, blame and punishment, and it remains unresolved.
In this topic
- Does feeling free make you free?
- Two ideas of freedom
- Determinism
- Indeterminism and the problem of luck
- Incompatibilism: two opposite verdicts
- Compatibilism
- Worked example: a Frankfurt case
- Worked example: three verdicts on one act
- The Libet experiments
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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