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Van Inwagen is a hard determinist.

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D'Holbach's view is that science precludes the notion of free will.

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If scientists proved once and for all that determinism is true, how do you think most people would react? Do you think most people would continue to hold each other responsible? What does that show, if anything, about our intuitive ideas about freedom?

It is widely agreed that fatalism and determinism are different in that

Stace thinks that determinism is compatible with moral responsibility.

James says that determinism professes that those parts of the universe already laid down absolutely decree what the other parts shall be.

Rowe says that progress in the philosophical study of free will is not possible.

All Libertarians accept agent causation.

Van Inwagen's case against compatibilism rests in part on the fact that we cannot render a law of nature

Rowe says that the problem with Lockean freedom is that, with this kind of freedom,

Sartre says forlornness comes from the realization that God does not exist, and we must face all the consequences of this.

_______ wrote The Will to Believe and The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Taylor rejects libertarianism.

James believes that only determinism allows for the possibility of free will.

D'Holbach says that man's life is a course that nature compels him to take without deviation.

Stace believes that determinism is consistent with free will.

The challenge of reconciling determinism with our intuitions or ideas about personal freedom is known as the

Taylor says that man is condemned to be free.

Soft determinism entails that

For the soft determinist, to say that you could have done otherwise is to say that you would have done otherwise if your desires