A Case For Free Will
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In this video, I’m going to bring together some of my thoughts on the topic of free will. I’ve been pondering this issue on and off for the past several years and my perspectives are, in many regards, unique. I hold to an indeterministic conception of free will which would probably be considered libertarian by many although I have developed some reservations about using that term. The plan for this video is as follows: First, I will offer a brief overview of the contemporary options in the free will debate and get some working definitions on the table. I will then present what I take to be the most plausible account of free will, namely an agent-causal account. I will present an original, although not decisive, argument for why we should think that this account is true. Finally I shall address the two most common objections to agent-causal indeterminism. I will explore and reject the idea that this account of free will is incoherent and reduces to random chance. Then I shall critique the notion that scientific developments in neuroscience has shown that our decisions are predetermined.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:40 - A Brief Survey of the Landscape
00:10:27 - Event-Causation vs. Agent-Causation
00:14:13 - Defending Agent-Causation
00:23:25 - Simple Indeterminism
00:29:12 - A Modest Argument For Indeterminism
00:32:28 - Defining Determinism and Indeterminism
00:35:45 - Abductive Reasoning 101
00:39:12 - The Phenomenology of Deliberation
00:42:25 - Determinism Entails Additional Complexity
00:46:45 - Objections and Replies
00:51:02 - The Randomness Objection
00:54:23 - The Extended Randomness Objection
01:00:28 - Has Science Disproved Free Will?
01:15:38 - Conclusion
Sources:
Four Views on Free Will - John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vagas
Living Without Free Will - Derk Pereboom
Excusing Sinners and Blaming God - Guillaume Bignon
Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives - Kevin Timpe
Freedom and Neurobiology - John R. Searl
Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will - David Hodgson
Thinking About Free Will - Peter van Inwagen
Persons & Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will - Timothy O’Connor
Libertarian Accounts of Free Will - Randolph Clarke
Aspects of Agency - Alfred R. Mele
A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will - Robert Kane
How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem - Ted Honderich
A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will - John Lemos
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will - Robert Kane (ed)
How Reason Can Lead to God - Joshua Rasmussen
Autonomous Agents - Alfred R. Mele
Mind, Brain, & Free Will - Richard Swinburne
Freewill and Determinism - R. L. Franklin
Agent-Causation Revisited - Thad Botham
Free Will - Mark Balaguer
Freedom, Teleology, and Evil - Stewart Goetz
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will - Robert M. Sapolsky
Free: Why Science Hasn’t Disproved Free Will - Alfred R. Mele
Free Will and Luck - Alfred R. Mele
Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will - Alfred R. Mele
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