Free Will by Mark Balaguer

Author:Mark Balaguer [Balaguer, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: philosophy, free will, determinism
ISBN: 9780262525794
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2014-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

The last point I want to make here is that the picture of free will that I’ve painted in this chapter is perfectly compatible with both the materialistic, scientific view of humans and the spiritual, religious view. What I’ve said here, in a nutshell, is that for a decision to be a product of my free will, it needs to be the case that (a) I did it, and (b) nothing made me do it. This, I think, is what you should say, whether you believe in nonphysical souls or not. Of course, if you endorse a materialistic view, you’ll say that conscious decisions are physical brain events, whereas if you endorse a spiritualistic view, you’ll presumably want to say that conscious decisions are nonphysical actions of nonphysical souls. But either way, you should say that for a decision of mine to be free, it needs to be the case that I did it and nothing made me do it. That’s just what free will is. Or, again, to be more precise, it’s what (not-predetermined) free will would be, if we have it.

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