Christopher P. Taggart

An Anomic Thesis and Agent-causal Libertarian Accounts of Free Will

Randolph Clarke argues that the following thesis is false: If incompatibilism is true, then for a human agent to perform a directly free action, the agent’s exercise of causal power must not be governed by any laws of nature, not even by probabilistic ones. That is, he argues that the exercise of free will could be g...