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: But anyone seriously attempting to put forth a position on free will is at least attempting to deal with the same set of related issues: am I really a free agent, rather than a complicated machine? Can I possibly deserve praise or blame for what I do? If I seem to decide to do something, or weigh some issue and come to a conclusion, was there really any decision or deliberation at all, rather than simply the appearance of them? Our specific conceptions of free will, compatibilistic or incompatibilistic, are measured against such concerns. So a compatibilist is someone who is saying that it's possible to answer such questions in the affirmative, while still holding determinism to be true. An incompatibilist is someone who is saying that it is not (and, perhaps, that there some other sense in which we might affirm them if determinism is false). Their exact theories of what free will is or requires will of course vary, sometimes vastly so, but they remain commensurable. Consequently, compatibilism and incompatibilism remain opposed positions, and Sam Harris remains wrong. level 2
Saint_Neckbeard
4 points · 6 years ago
But anyone seriously attempting to put forth a position on free will is at least attempting to deal with the same set of related issues: