View that free will and determinism are compatible.
Even though all our actions are caused, it is held, we can still be free in the only senses that are desirable or possible.
(Indeed, it is sometimes added, we would not be free at all if our actions were uncaused, since they would then be arbitrary and unpredictable, and not really actions at all.)
Compatibilists could in principle be indeterminists but in fact are nearly always (soft) determinists. Incompatibilists, who think that free will and determinism are incompatible, may accept either of these and reject the other, though they mostly tend in practice to accept free will and reject determinism.
Source:
R E Hobart, ‘Free Will as Involving Determinism and Inconceivable Without it’, Mind (1934); reprinted in B Berofsky, ed., Free Will and Determinism (1966)
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 Compatibilism
- 2.2 Coffeehouse Compatibilism: The Espresso that Drowned an Idea
- 2.3 In defense of compatibilism
- 2.4 Kant's Compatibilism
- 2.5 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 48, no. 1 (August 2000) (Evidential Arguments from Evil, Molinism and Compatibilism, 'Reference' to D.Z. Phillips)
- 2.6 The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
- 2.7 Metaphysics: An Introduction
- 2.8 Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will
- 2.9 A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will
- 2.10 Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (A Bradford Book)
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Coffeehouse Compatibilism: The Espresso that Drowned an Idea
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Kant's Compatibilism
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