
Episode 60: Compatibilism and Reduction with Robert Wallace
The Free Will Show
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The Problem With Reductive Compatibility
Early compatibilists have this kind of idea offering a kind of linguistic reduction. The view presupposes that the agent can choose already, and so choosing language shows up in the counterfactuals. I think there's a deeper problem that this extensional failure highlights. But you can still think about it in terms of abilities or dispositions.
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