On Jun 18, 6:22 pm, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 6/18/2012 9:50 AM, 1Z wrote: > > > > > On Jun 17, 7:28 pm, meekerdb<meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > >> No, not that I know to be such; but believers in contra causal free will > >> think that at > >> least some of their actions are. > > Does anyone describe themselves as a believer in Contra Causal Free > > Will? People do > > describe themselves as incompatibilist libertarians, and all they need > > to believe > > is that some of their actions are not entirely determined, and that > > whatever random > > element was involved was not fatal to their rationality, and their > > ownership > > of the action. > > I don't see that as contrary to compatibilism which holds that 'free will' is > compatible > with determinism
Well, incompatibilism is incompatible with determinism because incompatibilist libertarians think that if all their actions are determined, they have not FW. >(but not that determinism is necessarily true). Of course an otherwise > deterministic intelligence may make a random choice as part of a rational > strategy. Does > libertarian free will *require* that some actions be random? Yes, or at least some elements of some actions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
