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Wireless Philosophy

Course: Wireless Philosophy > Unit 2

Lesson 7: Metaphilosophy

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Metaphilosophy: Contrastivism #2 (Free Will)

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In this Wireless Philosophy video, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University) introduces a new approach to the problem of free will: contrastivism. At odds with traditional philosophical approaches to free will, contrastivism holds that people are free only relative to relevant alternatives. This approach gives us two kinds on freedom - freedom from causation and freedom from constraint - and it helps philosophers resolve a number of complex philosophical issues with free will.

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