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Powers, Time and Free WillLibertarian Freedom in an Eternalist World?

Powers, Time and Free Will: Libertarian Freedom in an Eternalist World? [My students sometimes worry that if eternalism is true then they can’t have libertarian freedom. They aren’t alone, as this sentiment is also expressed, albeit typically briefly, by various philosophers. However, somewhat surprisingly, those working within the free will literature have largely had nothing to say about libertarianism’s relationship to time, with this also being similar in the case of those working in the philosophy of time, apart from some work which has mainly focused on nonlibertarian views of freedom. In this short paper I note why I’m currently unconvinced that there’s an incompatibility between eternalism and libertarianism, and in doing so one will see why I think they are compatible.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Powers, Time and Free WillLibertarian Freedom in an Eternalist World?

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 451)
Editors: Austin, Christopher J.; Marmodoro, Anna; Roselli, Andrea
Page, Ben
Powers, Time and Free Will — Mar 29, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. Chapters [2] and [4] are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see licence information in the chapters.
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978-3-030-92485-0
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10.1007/978-3-030-92486-7_5
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Abstract

[My students sometimes worry that if eternalism is true then they can’t have libertarian freedom. They aren’t alone, as this sentiment is also expressed, albeit typically briefly, by various philosophers. However, somewhat surprisingly, those working within the free will literature have largely had nothing to say about libertarianism’s relationship to time, with this also being similar in the case of those working in the philosophy of time, apart from some work which has mainly focused on nonlibertarian views of freedom. In this short paper I note why I’m currently unconvinced that there’s an incompatibility between eternalism and libertarianism, and in doing so one will see why I think they are compatible.]

Published: Mar 29, 2022

Keywords: Libertarianism; Free will; Eternalism

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