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Frankfurt Examples and Christian Incompatibilism
I find the Frankfurt examples (and other examples in the same style) to be a useful way of illustrating that the Principle of Alternative Possibilities is false (see the first section of this video discussing the topic for an introduction and the remainder for a more detailed discussion). In the following I’ve tried to provide…
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Thoughts on the Will's Freedom
I was listening to an interesting discussion on the will’s freedom, in which the compatibilist noted the following: 1) The standard contemporary definition for Libertarian Free Will is the ability to do otherwise, given all preceding causal factors. 2) Thus, to take an example, if we choose to pull a trigger – we could have…