Pereboom's four-case manipulation argument shows that causal histories structurally identical to deterministic ones inherit the same control deficits, and Kane's indeterminism merely substitutes causal gaps for causal inevitability.
?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.
No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.
Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.
(as an alternative approach to the free will problem)
Robert Kane, a philosopher who defends free will by arguing that indeterminism (randomness) can actually be compatible with real human control.
Pereboom(referring to the philosopher who created the manipulation argument)
Derk Pereboom is a contemporary philosopher who argues that free will and moral responsibility might not exist, even though we feel like we make genuine choices.
causal histories(describing different ways events could have unfolded to produce the same result)
The chain of events and causes that led to something happening; the backstory of how something came to be.
determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')
indeterminism(implied by the text's classification of agent causation as a form of indeterminism)
The view that there are certain events that are not fixed as a matter of natural law