Dane: One of my heroes and mentors was a martin gardner, who was one of the founders of the modern sceptical movement. He made an argument that he called fidiism, that if you have an issue that cannot be resolved ultimately, either through reason or empiricism, you can make a leap of faith as it were. Dane wanted to say something w well, i was going to say. Grg gregg a, your opening comments made me think of kind of a pragmatic approach, a pragmatism approach to the issue. But society wis we should assume determinism because it's better for for a practical outcome im to assume determinism or assume free will
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.