The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom
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Libertarians believe that freedom exists but is incompatible with determinism, and so are committed to the compatibility of freedom and indeterminism. Perhaps the most pressing objection to libertarianism is the so-called Mind argument for the incompatibility of freedom and indeterminism. This essay presents a new criticism of the Mind argument that is at once decisive and instructive. After some preliminaries, we introduce a plausible principle (γ) that places a requirement on one’s having a choice about an event whose causal history includes only other events. We then argue for these three claims:
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