Timeline for Is there a philosophy of libertarian free will that doesn’t just devolve into randomness?
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| Oct 29 at 11:42 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | That seems more like word games and shuffling around of random definitions of randomness and determination. One determinist response to hard free will theories is that the concept underlying the theories is itself logically unstable, which is not a terrible criticism but can be leveled then at the concept of determination as well (c.f. the SEP entry on determinates and determinables, for example). | |
| Oct 29 at 11:37 | comment | added | Syed | @KristianBerry Yes, there is. You have three options A, B, and C. Option A gets picked with no further cause. Where’s the determinism here? I think a better point to make would be that even under determinism, those very laws are often presumed to exist without anything creating them. In that sense, those laws may be “random”. | |
| Oct 29 at 11:29 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | Is there a philosophy of randomness that doesn't just devolve into determinism? If there's no definition or theory of randomness that doesn't bring in some kind of abstract determination to explain what randomness is and how it differs from supposed alternatives, then perhaps the distinction between random and determined is on an absolute level illusory (or equivalently, it's a relative difference rather than an absolute one). | |
| Oct 29 at 11:15 | answer | added | tkruse | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 29 at 10:59 | history | asked | Syed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |