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Do we have free will? How could we have the psychological leeway to choose and act otherwise than we do? The sum of history and the laws of science, including psychology, deterministically imply all events, including each of our actions. Is natureâs iron determination of deliberation compatible with the willâs freedom? The philosophers who answer affirmatively, both classical and current, assume that either the ultimate scientific laws or the grand historical recordâor bothâare merely contingent. By proceeding to infer the contingency of lawfully determined actions, these compatibilists would secure the leeway presumably requisite for the willâs liberty. Akratic Compatibilism and All Too Human Psychology: Almost Enough Is Free Will Enough argues, however, that they may be dead wrong about the modality of natureâs laws and historyâs plasticity. Might the laws be necessary, and history absolutely fixed? Nevertheless, J. Christopher Maloney posits, we would yet be free. For psychology ordains volitional conflict: sometimes we akratically will to be able to act otherwise than we irresistibly do. Being akratic by nature, we asymptotically resist even a necessitating psychologyâs governance. That Sisyphean resistance against the laws of cognition almost achieves the willâs liberating leeway. Nevertheless, almost free is free enough for deliberators as weak-willed as we. |
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