Title: What is the difference between determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism? - Quora
Headings: What is the difference between determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism?
What is the difference between determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism?
Alex Baker
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Bruce Silverstein

Content: Compatibilism holds to the odd notion that determinism and free will exist at the same time. Free will is defined as that which comes from within us directly and with due consciousness, regardless as to what caused us to do so. Compatibilism and determinism as very similar, compatibilism simply changes semantics and attempts to put boundries to account for moral responsability. Peter Hawkins
, studied philosophy 2006-2009
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Mike Richmond
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Determinism: the view that the conjunction of the prior state of the universe and the laws of nature metaphysically entails a particular action, such that that action could not fail to occur (without changing either the prior state of the universe or the laws of nature)
Compatibilism: the view that determinism is not inconsistent with free-will
Libertarianism: the view that compatibilism is false (i.e. Libertarianism is incompatibilist. Free-will requires the “ability to do otherwise” in some ultimate metaphysical sense), and that we do in fact have free-will. This entails that the universe is i
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Determinism: the view that the conjunction of the prior state of the universe and the laws of nature metaphysically entails a particular action, such that that action could not fail to occur (without changing either the prior state of the universe or the laws of nature)
Compatibilism: