Does Free Will Even Make Sense?
May 24, 2018•18 min
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Episode description
Few things are as intuitively obvious, yet philosophically challenging, as the existence of free will.
There’s a fashionable critique of free will that says, “The very concept of free will is incoherent; therefore, it obviously doesn’t exist.”
This article does not make the case for or against the existence of free will. Instead, it defends its conceptual coherence. Free will is not a nonsensical idea, and it might exist.
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