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Why There Are No Good Arguments for or against Determinism (or Any Other Thesis That Would Establish or Refute Libertarianism): A BIT of Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem (MIT Press BITS)

Author Mark Balaguer
Publisher The MIT Press
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Author(s)Mark Balaguer
PublisherThe MIT Press
ISBN / ASINB00I5ZB7Y0
ISBN-13978B00I5ZB7Y0
Sales Rank1,265,795
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Mark Balaguer argues that the question of libertarian free will reduces to a question about indeterminacy -- in particular, to a straightforward empirical question about whether certain neural events in our heads are causally undetermined in a certain specific way. In this BIT, refuting arguments both for and against determinism, Balaguer shows that the question of whether human beings possess libertarian free will is a wide-open empirical question.