Title: Compatibilism - Wikipedia
Headings: Compatibilism
Compatibilism
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Content: Non-naturalism
Not to be confused with Religious naturalism. Alternatives to strictly naturalist physics, such as mind–body dualism positing a mind or soul existing apart from one's body while perceiving, thinking, choosing freely, and as a result acting independently on the body, include both traditional religious metaphysics and less common newer compatibilist concepts. Also consistent with both autonomy and Darwinism, they allow for free personal agency based on practical reasons within the laws of physics. While less popular among 21st century philosophers, non-naturalist compatibilism is present in most if not almost all religions. Criticism
Compatibilism has much in common with "hard determinism", including moral systems and a belief in determinism itself
A prominent criticism of compatibilism is Peter van Inwagen 's consequence argument . Critics of compatibilism often focus on the definitions of free will: incompatibilists may agree that the compatibilists are showing something to be compatible with determinism, but they think that this something ought not to be called "free will". Incompatibilists might accept the "freedom to act" as a necessary criterion for free will, but doubt that it is sufficient. The incompatibilists believe free will refers to genuine (i.e., absolute, ultimate) alternate possibilities for beliefs, desires, or actions, rather than merely counterfactual ones. Compatibilism is sometimes called soft determinism ( William James 's term) pejoratively.