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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

Within Reason

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The Problem With Free Will

The problem for free will, as I see it, is one of causation, essentially. It's often described in terms of physical determinism. For me, the question of materialism is irrelevant. Any action or any event is either going to be caused by something else and then uncorzed. And randomness isn't something that we're in control of.

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