Fähigkeitsbasierte Freiheitstheorien und das Problem des Determinismus
Locke and other compatibilists have argued that for an agent to have free will the agent has to have certain abilities. Yet, this does not fully answer the question of whether free will and determinism are compatible. For as Geert Keil and other incompatibilists have argued, the postulated
abilities that are said to be relevant for free will are themselves incompatible with determinism. Who is right? To answer this question, one has to have a plausible view of abilities first. In section 2, we argue that any plausible view of abilities will have to meet certain conditions, which
will turn out to be important when it comes to the abilities relevant for free will, and provide an exemplary view of abilities which meets these conditions. In section 3, we distinguish between different kinds of abilities. In section 4, we show that only a very specific kind of abilities
is incompatible with determinism and provide a diagnosis of the crucial dispute between compatibilists and incompatibilists. In section 5, finally, we argue that the abilities relevant for free will do not belong to the kind of abilities that are incompatible with determinism.
Language: German
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 2018
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