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Episode 60: Compatibilism and Reduction with Robert Wallace

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The Relationship Between Reasons and Action

The classical compatibilist view of free will is that it's in the action. It's in the manifestation of you're acting on the basis of reason, he says. The contemporary literature has a similar structure to the Fisher and Revisa style view. But if you think about the view I attributed to AJA, or if I had chosen otherwise, I would have. And then the antecedent of that conditional, right, like is the exercise of some of my agency, it's a choice. He concludes by saying: "I've failed to offer a reductive explanation"

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