Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism
Great Philosophical Debates: Free Will and Determinism
Free Will Impossibilism (1x10)
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Contemplate the Buddhist idea that the self does not exist—mental activity is simply a series of events happening on their own. British philosopher Galen Strawson offers a similar argument—that in order to have free will we must be the cause of ourselves, but since we are not, we cannot have free will.