The Problem With Quantum Randomness Isn't Free Will

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Quantum randomnessn that kind of chanciness to life doesn't give you free will. Yet, we do need the random list of coinlips and dice throwing. The issue was control, not causation. If there's true indeterminacy involved, you would just get this rat. And it seems that the agent simply lacks the control and action necessary for me to hold them morally responsible in the relevant sense.

The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.