Indetermined Free Will
An argument for libertarian (or "true") free will I've covered free will for a handful of times already and I've made clear that my position is that of compatibilism - free will is compatible and is even based on determinism - to be free is to act according to what I want, and what I want depends on what I am. However, I think there's a third option besides determined and random, which are usually the only two considered options regarding what happens in the world. We usually either consider that an event was determined by a previous one - "caused" by it, or that an event is purely stochastic - random. None of these work for "true free will" of the libertarian kind, one where your choice doesn't depend on what happened previously and is not random, either. The third possibility is one that I will call "indetermined". In other words, it is one which starts a new causal chain without having a prior cause. It can be informed by prior...