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Free Will
Introduction of a Wikipedia article. Complete article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
Fr
will raises the question whether, and in what sense,
ra
agents exercise control over their actions, decisions, choices. Addressing this question requires understanding the relationship between freedom and cause, and determining whether the laws of nature are
ca
deterministic. The
vario
philo
positions taken
diff
on whether all events are
determ
or not —
determini
versus
indetermi
— and
al
on
whe
freed
can coexist with determinism or not —
compat
versus incompatibilism. So, for instance, 'hard determinists' are incompatibilists who
arg
that the
unive
is deterministic, and
th
this makes free
wi
impossible. Libertarians are also incompatibilists.
Th
bel
that free
wi
exists and strict
caus
deter
is false. Their
pr
is to
reco
fr
wi
with chance or indeterminism,
whi
thr
to
ma
actions random. The
princ
of
fr
will has religious, ethical, and scientific implications. For example, in the religious realm, free
wi
implies
th
an omnipotent divinity does not
ass
its power over
indiv
wi
and choices. In ethics, it implies that individuals can be held
mora
accountable for their actions. The
qu
of free will has been a central
is
since the beginning of philosophical thought.
