
Episode 12: Libertarianism, Part 2 (Agent-Causal) with Timothy O'Connor
The Free Will Show
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The Problem of Luck
i think we need to get greater clarity on what the problem of luck is. You start off the problem as some one thing, and then it seems, under pressure of replies, it shifts into something else. If i'm if if if the decision i make is trolled by me, but all my relevant psychological states,. do not suffice to bring about the te oice that i in fact, make, well, then i'm not really controlling it. So they don't explain why? Why this rather than this alternative? Ah, and where that is true, what happens is a matter of luck. Because, you know, luck is usually a positive thing - there's good luck and
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