Does Free Will Require Alternative Possibilities?

Does Free Will Exist ?

1 Two Intuitions about Free Will : Alternative Possibilities and Intentional Endorsement

Free will is widely thought to require (i) the possibility of acting otherwise and (ii) the intentional endorsement of one’s actions (“indeterministic picking is not enough”). According to (i), a necessary condition for free will is agential-level indeterminism: at some points in time, an agent’s prior history admits more than one possible continuation. According to (ii), however, a free action...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

What Does the Free Will Theorem Actually Prove?

Conway andKochen have presented a “freewill theorem” [4, 6] which they claim shows that “if indeed we humans have free will, then [so do] elementary particles.” In a more precise fashion, they claim it shows that for certain quantum experiments in which the experimenters can choose between several options, no deterministic or stochastic model can account for the observed outcomes without violat...

Does Modernization Require