
Episode 12: Libertarianism, Part 2 (Agent-Causal) with Timothy O'Connor
The Free Will Show
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A Strange Analogue of Radioactive Particle Decomposition
There is a sort of strange a model analogue. It's an analogy, a that some philosophers like e j low and myself and helen stewart have used in this context. A, it's the phenomena of radioactive particle decay. Now, i think, sometimes fosters, when they discuss this, are unaware of this,. Because you can energize the source, ans you can speed up that decay - but it still will be a radically undetermined, random to a word. We've already discussed this problem for libertarian accounts of free will and previous episodes. What? What do you take the problem of luck to be? And how should agent causationists, or agent causal libertarians, respond
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