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- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,talk.philosophy.misc,talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: QM and Free Will
- Message-ID: <7893@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:54:16 GMT
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- In article <27811@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
- >Contrary to the presumption of many posters, there is no necessary
- >connection between lack of free and determinism, or free will and lack
- >of determinism. It would help if posters who wish to presume one or
- >both of these would spend a little time elaborating some decent
- >supporting arguments.
-
- Look in
-
- Gary Watson (ed), _Free Will_, Oxford University Press, for
- arguments for both points.
-
- Dennett, _Elbow Room_, for arguments that free will is compatible
- with determinism.
-
- Van Inwagen, _An Essay on Free Will_ for arguments that it is
- not.
-
- (Dennett and van Inwagen are included in Watson.)
-
- There are others that I can't think of off the top of my head.
- Compatiblism seems fairly prevalent these days, and it denies
- the presumptions you mention above, but it is not universally
- accepted.
-
- -- jd
-