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Are human choices ever free in a sense incompatible with universal causal determination?

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Libertarians, hard determinists and compatibilists disagree not only on the answer but on what freedom would have to mean for the question to be answerable at all, so the dispute has not converged even as physics and neuroscience have advanced.

What would resolve this A settled account of whether the laws of physics are genuinely deterministic at the level that matters for choice, combined with an agreed definition of the freedom moral responsibility requires, would resolve it; neither is settled.
OpenMetaphysics, philosophy of action, physicsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informations.v. Free WillView the Source
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