Did you know that free-will philosophers regularly conflate relations which are as different in kind as spurious correlation and causation? Did you know that this has led philosophers (even in x-phi) to engage in fallacious cum hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning and sophistical motte-and-baileying? It has also led to widespread confusion about the logical structures and conclusions of the most famous arguments in the debate--e.g. philosophers have normalized the mistaken narrative that the Consequence Argument, the Zygote Argument, the Four-Case Argument, and the Basic Argument aim to support the same conclusion. Would you like to know more abo…
Did you know that free-will philosophers regularly conflate relations which are as different in kind as spurious correlation and causation? Did you know that this has led philosophers (even in x-phi) to engage in fallacious cum hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning and sophistical motte-and-baileying? It has also led to widespread confusion about the logical structures and conclusions of the most famous arguments in the debate--e.g. philosophers have normalized the mistaken narrative that the Consequence Argument, the Zygote Argument, the Four-Case Argument, and the Basic Argument aim to support the same conclusion. Would you like to know more about the philosophically important differences between such arguments and appreciate the full range of positions in the contemporary free-will debate--while sidestepping empty disputes about the "right" way to define technical jargon that was excised from a research paradigm that most philosophers abandoned back in the 1990s? Me too -- so maybe you'll enjoy some of my recent publications!
You can also check out my recent discussions of the problem of free will and determinism on YouTube:
The Free Will Show podcast (Taylor Cyr and Matt Flummer):
https://youtu.be/VMj4GZLnNrE
AARG Talk on rival paradigm approaches to the problem of determinism:
https://youtu.be/2uTlqySuxV4
If you have any questions or comments about my work, I'd love to hear them. You can catch me by gmail, user name "kristin.mickelson.42".
