Libertarian Free Will: Problems and Prospects

If libertarianism about freedom and moral responsibility is true, then people sometimes act freely and accountably without being causally determined to do so.  Frequently maligned within the history of philosophy, this view has gained increasingly sympathetic attention among philosophers.  But many stark questions remain, including:

• How plausible is this view? 
• If our actions are not causally determined, how can we have control over them? 
• Why should we want our actions to be breaks in the deterministic causal chain?

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