Question

Compatibilists hold that this faculty exists in a deterministic universe. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this ability of a being to have control over choosing their own actions.
ANSWER: free will [accept freedom of the will]
[10h] This Notre Dame philosopher’s “consequence argument” against compatibilism states that if no one can change natural law or past events and determinism is true, then people cannot control future events.
ANSWER: Peter van Inwagen
[10m] David Lewis’ paper “Are we free to break the laws?” uses one of these statements involving hand-raising to rebut the “consequence argument.” Lewis analyzed causation in terms of these statements in a 1973 book titled for them.
ANSWER: counterfactuals [or counterfactual conditionals; prompt on conditionals]
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