Sunday, February 20, 2011

A lesson from Frankfurt cases

Here is one lesson one might take away from Frankfurt cases: Causal necessitation is not the same thing as logical necessitation by past conditions conjoined with laws. If the libertarian's intuitions are driven by the idea that free choices can't be causally necessitated, then Frankfurt cases have no effect, because the genius of the cases is precisely to construct cases where there is logical necessitation by past conditions conjoined with laws but no causal necessitation.

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