Am I free? Introductory lecture

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What is the third person perspective on human decisions and actions?
Decisions and actions are just events in a larger causal network of events, all of which are susceptible to scientific investigation, and are fully explainable
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Determinism:
There is only one series of events consistent with prior conditions of the world and the laws of nature
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Compatibilism:
free will (in some sense) and determinism are compatible
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Incompatibilism:
free will (in some sense) and determinism are incompatible
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Libertarians and indeterminists are subsets of...
Incompatibilism
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Hard determinists believe what?
Humans don't have free will
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Libertarianism:
incompatibilists who believe that humans have free will
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Determinism:

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There is only one series of events consistent with prior conditions of the world and the laws of nature

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Compatibilism:

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Incompatibilism:

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Libertarians and indeterminists are subsets of...

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