The Importance of Choice and Deliberation

David Frum: I think there's a strong incompatible intuition just along the lines you're suggesting which is it's a demand from one point of view that there be genuine open possibilities. If my choices are somehow being causally determined or fixed then maybe it's not really up to me in the same way, he says. The source of that decision that was famous libertarian, influential libertarian Robert Kane puts it, the buck stops with me. There’s no kind of regress into causal factors external to me,. Really that is the crucial divide between compatibleist and incompatibleist intuitions as to whether or not we need a weaker notion of choice and deliberation.