Dispositions and Free Will
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چکیده
Many opponents of free-will libertarianism argue that libertarian free agency is unintelligible. The aim of my talk is to answer them by suggesting that a coherent conception of libertarian freedom is possible if (and, possibly, only if) we adopt dispositionalism as the explanatory framework of human agency. My argument proceeds as follows. First, I classify the existing explanations of human agency into three types: Humeanism, natural-law theory and dispositionalism. Second, I claim that the former two cannot provide us an adequate basis for a libertarian free-agency theory. Finally, I suggest that, if we adopt a particular version of dispositonalism, we can construct an intelligible conception of libertarian freedom.
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