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
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (A Bradford Book)
- 2.2 Compatibilism
- 2.3 Kant's Compatibilism
- 2.4 In defense of compatibilism
- 2.5 Coffeehouse Compatibilism: The Espresso that Drowned an Idea
- 2.6 Does God Love All or Some?: Comparing Biblical Extensivism and Calvinism’s Exclusivism
- 2.7 The Price of Reason: Evolution, Free Will and Humanity's Fate
- 2.8 Metaphysics
- 2.9 Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will
- 2.10 An Invitation to Analytic Christian Theology
Videos
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (A Bradford Book)
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- Dennett, Daniel C. (Author)
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Kant's Compatibilism
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- English (Publication Language)
- 196 Pages - 05/01/1994 (Publication Date) - NCROL (Publisher)
In defense of compatibilism
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Coffeehouse Compatibilism: The Espresso that Drowned an Idea
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- 102 Pages - 11/29/2012 (Publication Date) - Resource Publications (Publisher)
Does God Love All or Some?: Comparing Biblical Extensivism and Calvinism’s Exclusivism
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The Price of Reason: Evolution, Free Will and Humanity's Fate
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- Hays, Warren S (Author)
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- 286 Pages - 07/31/2019 (Publication Date) - Diadema Press (Publisher)
Metaphysics
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- 328 Pages - 08/05/2014 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will
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- Mele, Alfred R. (Author)
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- 112 Pages - 09/02/2014 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
An Invitation to Analytic Christian Theology
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- McCall, Thomas H. (Author)
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- 193 Pages - 12/09/2015 (Publication Date) - IVP Academic (Publisher)
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