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Are You a Determinist?
I think we all agree that these are goods. The question is, on a naturalistic view, why think that these things are goods? It seems to me that you emphasize in your own book on the limits of morality the importance of having explanations and not cutting off the search for explanations too soon. Are you a determinist? Yes. And yet you still think that love is significant and human choices are more significant, even though they're determined? So to give a piece of jargon to the audience that Bill will be familiar with, I'm a compatibilist. That is to say, I believe that one can combine determinism and free will.