Free will and mystery: looking past the Mind Argument

The Two‐Stage Luck Objection

“…For this reason, defenders of the Luck Objection may do well to avoid couching the challenge to libertarianism in terms of agents' control, power, or abilities. 5 Shabo 2011Shabo , 2013Shabo , and 2014. That said, the version presented here is different in some ways, including ways that help to connect the two stages of the larger argument.…”

“…Shabo , , and . That said, the version presented here is different in some ways, including ways that help to connect the two stages of the larger argument.…”

Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency

“…In what follows, I will grant (MI-1) and consider five prominent recent arguments for (MI-2) -what I'll call, respectively, the 'Device Argument' (van Inwagen 1983, Graham 2010, the 'Promising Argument ' (van Inwagen , 2011, the 'Assimilation Argument' (Shabo 2013), the 'Nomological Grounding Argument' (Finch 2013), and the 'Selection Argument' (Haji 2001, Schlosser 2014. Before getting to these five prominent recent arguments for (MI-2), though, I want to briefly discuss two other lines of reasoning for the Unfreedom Lemma that, while historically salient, are much less interesting and promising than the five arguments that we'll focus on.…”

The Assimilation Argument and the Rollback Argument

“…But what exactly is the ability that van Inwagen claims Alice lacks and why should we think she lacks it? Shabo contends that it is not simply the ability to tell the truth, 25 but instead the ‘power [to settle] whether she voluntarily and intentionally lies or voluntarily and intentionally tells the truth’ 26 . According to Shabo, indeterminism threatens free will because it threatens the power to settle.…”

“…1 1 Shabo, 2011; forthcoming. I will assume, as does Shabo, the truth of incompatibilism – the thesis that free will is incompatible with determinism.…”