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Oct 6, 2026
The Philosophy of Free Will - Prof. Taylor Cyr - #61
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32:14Taylor CyrGUEST
Okay.
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32:14Taylor CyrGUEST
And so Frankfurt, his case is a little different, but he, you know, he, he's credited for, you know, introducing the, the cases that are now called Frankfurt cases.
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32:23Taylor CyrGUEST
Um, there's lots of varieties of them, and there's, yeah, there's so many different versions that actually fall into different categories that we, we don't wanna get into here.
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32:33Taylor CyrGUEST
But what he said was, "This looks like a case where, you know, I didn't actually make you vote for candidate A or make that decision.
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35:01Taylor CyrGUEST
So that's sort of the, the two, um, I don't know, sources or motivations for the semi-compatibilist position.
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35:08Taylor CyrGUEST
It looks like there's reason to think determinism takes away a certain kind of freedom, the freedom to do otherwise.
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35:13Taylor CyrGUEST
But on the other hand, that kind of freedom isn't necessary for moral responsibility, uh, as we learned from the Frankfurt cases.
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35:20Taylor CyrGUEST
So that's the kind of position that, that I go for.