Category: Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

How could we have alternative possibilities if the world was physically deterministic? I argue that physical determinism does not rule out indeterminism at the level of agency. The distinction between determinism and indeterminism is level-specific.

Realism about free will is warranted, because the picture of humans as choice-making agents is explanatorily indispensable in the human and social sciences.

This series of posts discusses some key ideas from Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Christian List.