This post is my attempt to put into words those realizations which some 3 years ago led me to my current position on the existence and nature of free will. Though I have written much on free will in online forums since arriving at my current beliefs, I’ve said little regarding these core realizations that …
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Free Will: «Could Have Done Otherwise»
In my previous post on this topic, I analyzed a common argument for incompatibilism and found it to not be logically valid, as it was based on contradictory assumptions. In this post, I want to say a few words about a widespread notion about free will that gets brought up by incompatibilists, by which I …
Free will: on Physical Determinism
In my previous post in this series, I tried to get the definition of “free will” sorted out. To sum things up, I concluded that although the phrase “free will” is too ambiguous to be used without bringing up certain issues, it does have a core meaning around which all discussion on the matter revolves, …
Under the Spell of Words 