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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

Within Reason

CHAPTER

The Phenomenology of Intentional Actions

When you have a choice between two options and you make a decision, I think there's a way of characterizing this if we want to defend the view that there's no free will. It seems like even in these more serious considerations, you can imagine a world leader deciding whether or not to go to war. But what is it we're describing there? If somebody has information on this side andinformation on this side, and they're not sure, and then someone of their advisors says, but have you considered this, sir? And they go, you know what? Yeah, I think we should, we should go towar.

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