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Does Free Will Even Make Sense?

Does Free Will Even Make Sense?

Can We Really Choose?

Patterson in Pursuit

May 24, 201818m 27s

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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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