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Episode 2: Fatalism, Foreknowledge, and Determinism with John Martin Fischer

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i want to figure out whether there's a kind of free will that could ground our dignity as persons and our moral accountability. The argument is about the relationship between whet' say, god's existence, and our freedom. If causal determinism were true, then real physical conditions in the past, together with the laws of nature, entail what i choose and what i do. And so the idea here is the fixidty of the past is now even stronger than in the god's foreknowledge case,. This time we're talking about indisputably real, genuine physical conditions inthe past. I have no choice about those physical conditions that an ideal of physics would identify or be able to

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