Freedom and indeterminism

Daniel Shaw

pp. 17-29

in: John Heil (ed), Cause, mind, and reality, Berlin, Springer, 1989

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to raise objections against Indeterminism as an attempted solution to the problem of Freedom and Determinism. But before presenting this negative argument, I shall first attempt to state the problem of Freedom and Determinism as I see it, to summarise the three standard approaches to the problem and to say where I think the true solution lies.