Free Will and Determinism

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• Which position claims that free will and determinism are logically compatible?
• Hard determinism holds that genuine free will is incompatible with causal determinism.
• What is the central claim of libertarian theories of free will?
• Causal determinism means that every event has no explanation or cause.
• Which statement best expresses the consequence argument against free will?
• Indeterminism by itself guarantees that a person has free will.
• In Harry Frankfurt’s famous cases, what is the main challenge to the principle that moral responsibility requires the…
• Compatibilists generally define free action as action produced by the agent’s own motives without external coercion.