Kadri Vihvelin is a contemporary analytic philosopher at the University of Southern California specializing in free will, causation, and the metaphysics of ability. She is best known for defending compatibilism and for her detailed analysis of the conditional nature of free will. Her work argues that free will disputes are inseparable from broader questions in metaphysics and ethics.
Authored 'Causes, Laws, and Free Will' (2013), a systematic compatibilist account of free will
Developed a conditional analysis of ability central to contemporary compatibilist debates
Argued that free will disputes are ineluctably bound up with metaphysical and ethical commitments
Contributed influential work on the relationship between causation, laws of nature, and agency
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