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Episode 60: Compatibilism and Reduction with Robert Wallace

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The Problem With Reductive Compatibility

I started getting worried actually about how widespread this commitment was. I think there's a way of reading the Fisher and her Visa semi-compatibilism, which isn't the way that I'm reading it. When we think about free agency or free will, we're thinking about abilities. And maybe some abilities are explained in terms of dispositions, right? Like I'm able to sweat when I run. We mean something that's active or directed by the agents. You might use language of self-determination here. But I like settling, right? So I think part of what it is to think that an agent has free,. just as much as they settle for themselves going to

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