Let's try one sentence:I assume you mean Kant. I'm surprised that he would say that free will and desire are incompatible. In what sense incompatible? Do you have a reference? — Luke
I assume you mean Kant. I'm surprised that he would say that free will and desire are incompatible. In what sense incompatible? Do you have a reference? — Luke
Having a will is required in order to make a choice. — khaled
I didn't think that the issue with Stove's Gem was externality, but perhaps I've misunderstood the argument. — Luke
What more is there to having a will than making a choice?
And if that's all there is to it, then how could having a will preceded making a choice? — Banno
I have to make a choice. I need a will to make a choice. That will is the thing I chose with. This looks like a story that adds layers while not actually explaining anything. Hence we now have a thread that spends its time discussing the reified will when all that was needed was to talk about choice — Banno
If you are choosing between A and B you need some sort of mechanism by which to make the choice. That mechanism is called will. — khaled
Having a will is required in order to make a choice. — khaled
in descriptions of the self in the psychology I have read and in cognitive science, the will, while it might sometimes feature, does not dominate in the way that would be expected if Schopie and the moustachioed one were right. — Banno
He only refers to 'one' as a shorthand indicating the person qua physical or mental state at some point of time — SophistiCat
This is an argument, though perhaps not a very good one. — SophistiCat
He apparently believes that the only thing that can bear the "ultimate" responsibility is that which is itself uncaused (but not random/chancy). — SophistiCat
Rather, we'd work out what it is we still mean by 'responsible' despite determinism. — Isaac
That would be a very different approach indeed (and one that I would endorse): start from the commonsense assumption that there is such a thing as moral responsibility, then work out what it is. — SophistiCat
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