Alfred Mele: Two Theories of Free Will

Alfred Mele: Two Theories of Free Will: or Why Event-causal Libertarians Should Prefer My Daring Libertarian View to Robert Kane’s View Libertarianism about free will is the conjunction of two theses: the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism, and at least some human beings sometimes exercise free will. Some libertarian views – so-called event-causal views – appeal to indeterministic causation by events and states. This article explores the relative merits of two different vi