Timeline for Is there a philosophy of libertarian free will that doesn’t just devolve into randomness?
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| Oct 30 at 13:45 | comment | added | JMac | @PerttiRuismäki Reason_ing_ helps you make decisions, reasons are explanations for the decisions you've made (or for events that have occured, since reasons are not exclusive to thought). | |
| Oct 30 at 13:25 | comment | added | Pertti Ruismäki | @JMac Reasons don't mandate anything. Reasons are not knowledge about what mandates. Reasons are knowledge that is useful in decision-making. Reasons help you to make better decisions. | |
| Oct 30 at 12:21 | comment | added | JMac | @PerttiRuismäki You really havent drawn a clear distinction between a reason and a cause. What's the practical difference between being able to describe what mandates an event (a cause), and knowledge of what mandates an event (a reason)? | |
| Oct 30 at 4:04 | comment | added | Pertti Ruismäki | @NotThatGuy The OP did not ask what is free will. I did explain the difference between randomness and free will. Reasons are very much different from causes, they are in totally different categories. Any attempt to conflate these two is a serious category error. Reasons are useful knowledge. Causes mandate physical events. There is nothing in common. | |
| Oct 29 at 22:56 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | This doesn't really explain anything. It just asserts that free will isn't deterministic and isn't random, but it doesn't explain what it is. "Reasons are not causes" seems like trying to draw a distinction between 2 things that aren't actually different. If the reasons follow from one's personality or external factors, then the question is whether it follows deterministically, whether one can arbitrarily (randomly) use a different reason, etc. It ultimately still just boils down to the same question and the same problem. | |
| Oct 29 at 14:08 | comment | added | Dark Malthorp | If choices are always made for a reason, that is determinism (really, compatibilism), not libertarian free will. | |
| Oct 29 at 11:55 | history | answered | Pertti Ruismäki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |