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	Free Will [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The most well-known and influential argument for incompatibilism from the first set of arguments is called the "Consequence Argument," and it has been championed by Carl Ginet and Peter van Inwagen [see Ginet (1966) and van Inwagen (1983)].
		According to proponents of this sort of argument for incompatibilism, the truth of determinism would mean that agents don’t cause their actions in the kind of way needed for free will and, ultimately, moral responsibility.
		Thus, the Consequent Argument for incompatibilism is invalid.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/freewill.htm (9087 words)

	Incompatibilism, Philosophy, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
		Incompatibilism is the most convincing of the three theories proposed regarding the relationship between free will and determinism.
		The second argument against incompatibilism, to which I will respond, does not assume that reasons and explanations are deterministic but claims that where we have an undetermined action we do not have an agent in control of determining what his action is to be.
		Incompatibilism is the strongest position to hold on the deterministic and free will dilemma.
	www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Philosophy/Incompatibilism.shtml (1844 words)

	Derk Pereboom - Living Without Free Will - Reviewed by Erik Carlson, Uppsala - Philosophical Reviews - University of ...
		Leeway incompatibilism claims that moral responsibility presupposes alternative possibilities for action, and that alternative possibilities are precluded by determinism.
		Causal-history incompatibilism, which is the view favoured by Pereboom, maintains that an agent is morally responsible only if he is the ultimate causal source of his action, and that determinism is incompatible with agentsâ being such ultimate sources.
		A weakness in Pereboomâs defence of causal-history incompatibilism is that it seems to implicitly rely on the thesis that determinism is incompatible with alternative possibilities, or, in other words, with the claim that an agent could have acted otherwise than he actually did.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1287 (1516 words)

	Arguments for Incompatibilism
		Perhaps for this reason: until fairly recently, compatibilism was the received view and it was widely believed that arguments for incompatibilism rest on a modal fallacy or fairly obvious mistake (e.g., the mistake of confusing causation with compulsion, or the mistake of confusing descriptive with prescriptive laws) (Ayer 1954).
		Incompatibilism is the thesis that if determinism is true, then (for that reason) we don't have free will.
		Compatibilism is, minimally, the denial of incompatibilism; the compatibilist is someone who rejects the claim that the truth of determinism would mean that we lack free will.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/fall2004/entries/incompatibilism-arguments (9934 words)

	AFTER COMPATIBILISM AND INCOMPATIBILISM
		The real problem of determinism has seemed to be that of accomodating ourselves to the frustration of certain attitudes and practices, at bottom certain desires.
		That is to say that both of Incompatibilism and Compatibilism are false.
		Incompatibilism and Compatibilism are answers to a question with a false presupposition, that we have but one conception of freedom or one important conception, and they themselves presuppose or assert that falsehood.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /inpc/4th-2001/Papers/Honderich.htm (5177 words)

	Arguments for Incompatibilism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The denial of incompatibilism is compatibilism; a compatibilist is someone who believes that the truth of determinism does not rule out the existence of free will.
		Perhaps for this reason: until fairly recently, compatibilism was the received view and it was widely believed that arguments for incompatibilism rest on a modal fallacy or fairly obvious mistake (e.g., the mistake of confusing causation with compulsion, or the mistake of confusing descriptive with prescriptive laws) (Ayer 1954).
		Incompatibilism is the thesis that if determinism is true, then (for that reason) we don't have free will.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/incompatibilism-arguments (9921 words)

	The Route To Active Lifestyle - An Essay on Free Will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Van Inwagen believes that the three arguments for incompatibilism that he presents are all good arguments (at least more reasonable than their denials) and, hence, by the end of chapter 3 he thinks he is justified in answering the compatibility question in the negative.
		Thus, his overall conclusion is that (i) incompatibilism is true (his answer to the compatibility question) and that (ii) free will exists (his answer to the traditional question).
		The book begins by explaining the issues involved--the problems associated with fatalism, arguments for compatibilism, arguments for incompatibilism, the consequences of our not having free will, and the "traditional problem", which is mainly the question of whether or not we have free will.
	www.activeroute.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/0198249241 (1230 words)

	Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		One consideration that, combined with incompatibilism, counts against allowing such deterministic causation of free actions is the idea that, in acting freely, we make a difference to the way the world goes.
		Incompatibilism requires here that something other than deciding at t to A have been causally open, and that requirement will be met if there was a chance that at t Elena would continue deliberating, seeking further reasons for or against the two alternatives she is considering.
		On the assumption that incompatibilism is correct, the account's requirement of indeterminism is needed to secure the openness of alternatives.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/incompatibilism-theories (9770 words)

	Experimentalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is with the theories of Behaviorism, Hard Incompatibilism, Determinism, Experimentalism, and even some religious view points, that the free will arguments shall be examined.
		Incompatibilism deals with the claim that if an action is completely determined by factors beyond the agent’s control, then the act is not freely willed.
		It is with the freedom to act, and be responsible that the deterministic side of hard incompatibilism attempts to argue against.
	class.lindsey.edu /instructor/luddend/4901-99-03hall.htm (4017 words)

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		We conclude that while our preliminary data suggest that incompatibilism is not as intuitive as incompatibilists have traditionally assumed, more work should be done both to determine what ordinary intuitions about free will and moral responsibility actually are and to understand what role these intuitions should play in the free will debate.
		Why it matters whether incompatibilism is intuitive By calling the free will debate “the problem of free will and determinism,” philosophers have traditionally assumed that there is a problem with the compatibility of free will and determinism unless and until proven otherwise.
		In other words, it is not that incompatibilism is intuitive and this suggests a libertarian conception of freedom; rather, the libertarian conception of freedom is intuitive, and the contours of this conception support premises in a philosophical argument for an incompatibilist conclusion.
	gfp.typepad.com /online_papers/files/is_incompatibilism_intuitive_for_ppr_prepub.doc (8608 words)

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		Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem
		Ted Honderich: Determinism's Consequences -- The Mistakes of Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, and What Is To Be Done Now
		Ted Honderich: Determinism as True, Compabilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem
	www.ucl.ac.uk /~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm (847 words)

	Kevin Timpe, Department of Philosophy
		Wide Source Incompatibilism maintains that while the ultimacy condition is most fundamental to moral responsibility, an agent meeting the ultimacy condition for moral responsibility will also have alternative possibilities, thereby also satisfying an alternative possibilities condition.
		I give reasons to think that some version of Wide Source Incompatibilism is the most promising incompatibilist position.
		If I am correct, then Frankfurt-libertarians must either renounce their incompatibilism or concede that Frankfurt-type cases fail to show all PAP-like principles to be false.
	home.sandiego.edu /~ktimpe/research.htm (903 words)

	Mormon Philosophy & Theology
		"Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?" (Note that it is a Word file rather than a PDF) It's basically an attack on incompatibilism not from the usual routes, but from the view of intuitions.
		March 25, 2005 06:09 PM I'm somewhat persuaded by the argument you and Steve and others have made that predicting the distant future in world where Libertarian Free Will is accurate (as asserted and without other more causal factors in play) may be more than difficult...
		I'd add thought that Nichols and Knobe only assert intuitions of incompatibilism with respect to moral responsibility but say that the intuitions are for compatibilism for other questions.
	www.lextek.com /clark/10445.html (658 words)

	Compatibilism and incompatibilism - TheBestLinks.com - David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Free will, Determinism, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Compatibilism and incompatibilism - TheBestLinks.com - David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Free will, Determinism,...
		Compatibilism, Compatibilism and incompatibilism, David Hume, Immanuel Kant...
		Compatibilism, also known as "soft determinism" and most famously championed by Hume, is a theory which holds that free will and determinism are compatible.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Compatibilism.html (424 words)

	Joseph Keim Campbell (ed.), Michael O'Rourke (ed.), David Shier (ed.) - Freedom and Determinism - Reviewed by Eddy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He seems to take the view regarding most objections to his positions that he takes regarding Frankfurt cases, that "as far as he is concerned, his original arguments for this position are the only answer to these counter-arguments that was really needed" (222).
		But it would be helpful to see how he would respond to other impressive responses to the Consequence argument, since it remains the most influential argument for incompatibilism (I take the view that most other incompatibilist and skeptical arguments, such as Galen Strawson's, rely on the same basic premises and principles as the Consequence argument).
		The others either support compatibilism (chapters 2, 5, 6, 9, and 11), do not deal with the compatibility question (chapters 1, 4, and 8) or are best read as neutral between the two positions (chapters 7, 12, 13, and 14).
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=2841 (3588 words)

	Libertarianism (metaphysics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophical debates about free will and determinism, libertarianism is generally held to be the combination of the following beliefs:
		All libertarians subscribe to the philosophy of incompatibilism which states that an action cannot be both free and physically predetermined in the commonly understood sense.
		Free actions are ones which could have been different.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libertarianism_(philosophy) (322 words)

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		It is against the idea that determinism is logically consistent with free will and moral responsibility, and also against the idea, as turns out to be possible to be, that these things are logically inconsistent.
		Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem".
		It is that each of the long-running traditions, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, is false.
	www.eou.edu /~jjohnson/Determinism.htm (6121 words)

	Free Will
		Compatibilism: It is possible for both determinism to hold and free will to exist at the same time.
		Incompatibilism: If determinism is true, there is no free will.
		Hard determinism: Incompatibilism and determinism are both true and so there is no free will.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/ap85/001/2004/FreeWill.html (504 words)

	Brian McLaughlin and Michael Tye, "Is Content-Externalism Compatible with Privileged Access?"
		Our aim is to show that neither line of argument succeeds, and thus that no case has yet been made for incompatibilism.
		In this second half of the paper, we have argued that no version of externalism supported by Twin-Earth thought experiments alone has as a consequence that it is a conceptual truth that if one is thinking that P, then E, where E is not knowable a priori.
		We conclude that neither of the two leading lines of argument for incompatibilism establishes that externalist theses supported by Twin-Earth thought-experiments are incompatible with privileged access.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/tye/Access.html (11242 words)

	Experimental Philosophy: Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?
		The third paper--entitled "Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?"--has just been accepted for publication by Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
		But I don't see why incompatibilism can't be described as the thesis that "Determinism therefore necessarily not freedom", as well as "necessarily, not determinism and freedom".
		Even if this were true, wouldn't this just provide more evidence for our conclusion--namely, that if P is a fair characterization of incompatibilism, incompatibilists ought to give P up since it is false.
	experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com /experimental_philosophy/2005/03/is_incompatibil.html (2892 words)

	INTRODUCTION TO FREE AGENCY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Incompatibilism: the view that freedom and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism (Holbach and Chisholm).
		Hard Determinism = Incompatibilism + determinism is true.
		Libertarianism (Soft Indeterminism) = Incompatibilism + indeterminism is true (and indeterminism is necessary for freedom).
	www.csun.edu /~ds56723/phil403/hout403freedomintro.htm (303 words)

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		Incompatibilism, the view that free will and determinism are incompatible, subsists on two widely accepted, but deeply confused, theses concerning possibility and causation: (1) in a deterministic universe, one can never truthfully utter the sentence "I could have done otherwise," and (2)
		Whether or not these definitions are entirely dependable, they are emblematic of the central role the concepts of causation and possibility play in our understanding of free will.
		Incompatibilists dread determinism because they suspect that a deterministic universe would lack the sorts of open possibilities that we cherish and deprive us of the ability to cause changes to the world in a meaningful way.
	ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/kitdraft.htm (7886 words)

	Free Term Papers on Compatibilism and Incompatibilism
		Compatibilism is the belief that determinism and free will can effectively co-exist and incompatibilism concludes that determinism denies the notion of free will.
		Also to be demonstrated is the ability to define the stronger argument between incompatibilism and compatibilism.
		Evidence will be provided to argue the incompatibilism is the dominant theory.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/59598.html (243 words)

	The Huff Report : Science, technology and everything else » Free will
		The project–which was an attempt to probe folk intuitions concerning free will and moral responsibility in an empirically informed manner–has produced three papers.
		The third paper–entitled “Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?”–has just been accepted for publication by Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
		Since we talk a lot about the relevance of folk intuitions to the free will debate–I thought some of you may be interested in checking it out.
	www.huff-report.com /news/category/free-will (1405 words)

	Fides Quaerens Intellectum: Theological Compatibilism and Incompatibilism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Theological compatibilists in accord with their name believe the two can intelligibly coexist, while theological incompatibilists claim they are not compatible.
		Aside from my belief that there are solid arguments that demonstrate theological compatibilism, as a Christian I think there is another route I would take to safeguard my views against theological incompatibilism.
		I recognize the Bible broadly portrays God with foreknowledge and humans as free, and if I can't figure it out, I assume it is beyond my abilities to figure it out.
	blog.johndepoe.com /2004/07/theological-compatibilism-and.html (304 words)

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