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Alfred Mele, “Free Will: An Investigation” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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Is There Anything Other Than Material Stuff?

Prime thers this big assumption that knowing all these particles and the mechanics that describe them enables us to scale up to all sorts of things like beliefs and desires. And it might be deciding to raise my left hand, or it might be thinking a bit longer about what to do. So am or or re defines determinism to an extent that renders it quite different than what i think it should be. The first position of compatibility strikes me as incoherent. Some compatiblist are claiming that determine ism, just as you described it, is compatible with free will. Ok, no, you know, that makes good sense, what you said. Now, there are some different replies to this

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