Two Intuitions about Free Will: Alternative Possibilities and Endorsement
| Abstract | An agent’s action counts as free only if the action is endorsed by the agent in an appropriate way, as opposed to having been merely indeterministically picked from some set of alternative possibilities, for instance by randomization or some contingency outside the agent’s control | |||||||||
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