Title: Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible. : philosophy
Headings: Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible.
Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible.
Compatibilism and Incompatibilism are compatible.
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Content: It doesn't matter whether or not you desired to pick up the ball or someone made you pick up the ball, if you have no possibility to lay some claim to controlling the outcome, you did not act as a free agent. The hard determinist is going to extend this a bit further by saying you can never possibly lay claim to controlling any of your outcomes, because you don't control the past or the laws of nature. Libertarians are going to say you can to some or all of them. In the case that determinism is incorrect, due to some kind randomness or whatever, some might still say you never act as a free agent since you cant control the outcome of whatever falsifies determinism. I don't know what the view that determinism and free will are incompatible with each other and both false is called, but i think that most accurately describes what I believe. However I would still include among those who accept compatibilism, because it is using a different sense of the phrase 'free will'
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slickwombat
24 points · 6 years ago
I will try to clearly give my reasoning as to why compatibilism and incompatibilism can both coherently be believed simultaneously. Compatibilism is the view that free will and determinism are compatible; incompatibilism is the view that they are not. So unless one is equivocating on "free will", there is literally no way they can coherently be held simultaneously. I suspect what you're getting at here -- and to be clear, I'm not getting the thrust of your argument at all, so this is a guess -- is that compatibilism and incompatibilism lead to different and incommensurable notions of free will.