Episode 15: Compatibilism, Part 1 (Classical Compatibilism) with Helen Beebee

Mar 8, 2021

46:11

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Compatiblism - Free Will Versus Determinism?

Introduction

4min

Compatiblism - Free Will Versus Determinism?

4min

Why Is There No External Impediment to Acting Freely?

2min

Classical Compatiblism

2min

If We Choose to Remain at Rest, We May if We Decide to Move, We Also May So

3min

The Dispositional View Is the Way to Go

2min

The Consequences Argument - Where Has It Goed Wrong?

5min

Breaking a Law of Nature

5min

Is the Glass Falling Off the Shelf?

2min

10.

The Closest Possible World Where the Glass Falled Off the Shelf

6min

11.

Is There a Difference Between a Law and a Discrimination?

2min

12.

The Metaphysics of Laws

5min

13.

The Human Compatibility of the Laws

6min

In this episode, we ask Helen Beebee about a range of compatibilist positions, beginning with the “classical compatibilism” of Hobbes/Hume and then turning to the conditional analysis of ability, David Lewis’s “local miracle compatibilism,” and, finally, “Humean compatibilism.”

Helen's website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/Helen.Beebee.html

Helen’s book, Free Will: An Introduction: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230232921

Helen’s paper, “Local Miracle Compatibilism”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3506084?seq=1

Helen’s paper with Al Mele, “Humean Compatibilism”: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093706?seq=1

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