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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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The Capacity of Free Will

In the book, you say that there's a distinction between free will as a capacity and free will in its exercise. So could you explain that? Yeah, so at least conventionally, we like to think that humans do indeed have freeWill as a general capacity. I characterize this capacity as consisting of three sub capacities or components. That feature is also sometimes called mental causation.

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