Talk:Free Will vs. Determinism Debate

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Free Will v. Determinism Common presuppositions and general topics:

- The fundamentally (quantum) indeterminate nature of the physical world demands that the future cannot be determined in any meaningful way
- Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem vis a vis the defeat of Logical Positivism
- Newton and Heisenberg as useful and meaningful modalities
Human Nature or blank slate?
 -> Predestination (religious arguments from Calvin vs. Arminius)
 -> Chompsky vs. Faucout 
 -> The fall of behaviorism in the post-war era.
- The delay in cognitive awareness from choice as measured by EEG
 -> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942748/
- compatibilism

links:

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/causes-laws-and-free-will-why-determinism-doesn-t-matter/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

http://philosophyintroduction.weebly.com/uploads/4/4/6/2/44624607/campbell_compatibilist_alternatives.pdf