A Reflection on our Freedom

Philosophia 38 (2):327-330 (2010)
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Abstract

Many Compatibilists seem to suppose that discover that we lived in a deterministic world would not unseat our confidence that many of our actions are nevertheless free. Here's a short story about such confidence becoming unseated.

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Matthew Slater
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