PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, Predeterminism
15 Nov 2016
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State of affairs + laws of nature. But the path happens because of your desires, hopes, wishes, etc. All the views are mysterious but each in its own way. Compatibilism: redefines free will in a way that seems to miss the point of the debate. Determinism: to believe in this would do incredible violence to entire way of understanding and interacting with the world. Libertarianism: requires indeterminism, which is fine, but seems to require agent causation, which is an utterly mysterious notion. Then, he is threatened by someone who wants to make him do that very thing. Jones-1 does what he decides, no matter what happens later. Jones-2 is completely driven by the threat, despite his earlier decision. Jones-3 would have been coerced by the threat, but is acting by his own decision. Black wants jones-4 to do something terrible. Jones-4 will likely do it by himself. But if he does not, black can make him do it.
