“I am determined to make my
own choices”
Baggini on Free Will
In his book,
optimistically entitled “Freedom Regained
– the Possibilty of Free Will”, Baggini seeks to update a compatibilist
version of free will (compatibilism being the, or a, school of thought which
holds that human free will is “compatible” with a deterministic model of the
universe; which entails that the universe is, without exception, governed by
physical laws such that all that happens, or has happened, happens
inevitably from a set of initial conditions, including what all that happens
inside us. Incompatilists argue the opposite, either in despair of free will or
because they hold to some variety of indeterminism, whereby the physical laws
don’t necessarily apply to all or an important element of human action).
