The London Lyceum Free Will and Determinism with Taylor Cyr and W. Matthews Grant
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Jul 5, 2023 AI Snips
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Two Senses Of Determinism
- Determinism means one physically possible future given past states and laws of nature.
- Divine determinism instead makes God's decrees the prior fact fixing one possible future.
Incompatibilism Versus Compatibilism
- Incompatibilists think free will and determinism cannot both be true.
- Libertarians deny determinism to preserve free will, while compatibilists accept both.
God Can Cause Acts And Preserve Freedom
- Both guests accept God can cause actions and those actions can still be free.
- Matthews finds it harder for libertarians but argues God's causation need not necessitate acts in the relevant way.