Title: Determinism, Ultimate Preference, and the Consistency Claim
Abstract: Abstract This chapter is an attempt to explain how scientific determinism can be consistent with freedom of choice. The purpose is to offer an account of freedom of choice that is logically consistent with a scientific theory maintaining that all choice is covered by scientific laws. This could be described as what has been called compatibilism, now called classical compatibilism. Since the term compatibilism has been co-opted to involve a weaker constraint on freedom, requiring only that a person do what he or she fully desires, even if no option is available, the preference here is to speak of the consistency claim. It is the claim that freedom of choice containing a choice among options, including the option not to choose as one does, is consistent with scientific laws covering all choice. This chapter is a defense of the consistency of ultimate freedom with determinism.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-08-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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