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
Bruce Silverstein
Bruce Silverstein

Content: Libertarian free will has few arguments for its support. Determinism states that the feeling of free will is an illusion. None of us have been able to do something differently. Hard determinism states that everything has already been determined from cause and effect. Due to the nature of quantum mechanics, we know that random chance may come into play, so hard determinism may be a weaker argument than a determinism that holds that random chance could alter decision making. 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
, MA Physics & Philosophy, University of Oxford · Author has 7.3K answers and 15.2M answer views
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: