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Episode 60: Compatibilism and Reduction with Robert Wallace

The Free Will Show

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The Problem With Reducing Agency

The disappearing agent objection is like, if it turns out that what settles that an agent will act is an indeterministic process of like previous mental events, then where's the agent? The agent seems to disappear from your explanation. Neil Levy thinks that this is like a luck problem. It's just pure luck, which one of the actions or cause by the antecedent events. I think there's a lot of issues here to be explored about reductionism in the free will debate.

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