Review:
Libertarian Free Will
overall review score: 4.5
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Libertarian free will is the belief that humans have the ability to make choices that are not determined by past events or external forces.
Key Features
- Ability to make genuine choices
- Not determined by causality
- Personal responsibility
- Morally significant actions
Pros
- Promotes personal agency and autonomy
- Allows for moral accountability and praise/blame
- Underpins concepts of justice and fairness
Cons
- Debates over compatibility with determinism
- Issues with empirical evidence supporting libertarian free will
- Challenges in explaining the mechanism of free will