Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Harry G. Frankfurt, J.B. Watson and Roderick Chisholm
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have [Frankfurt]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm]
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If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm]
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Determinism claims that every event has a sufficient causal pre-condition [Chisholm]
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