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Episode 15: Compatibilism, Part 1 (Classical Compatibilism) with Helen Beebee

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Breaking a Law of Nature

Lois lewis claims that we can't break laws in the first sense. He distinguishes between two different ways of breaking a law of nature. One is to do something such that, if you did it, a law would have been broken. The other is an ability that according to lewis breaks a law itself. Artefactures are propositions of the form: If this hadn't happened, or wouldn't have happened,. We go around making counterfactual claims about what could and should have happened.

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