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We begin with considerations about causality, chance, and determinism. Next, we turn to consider some questions about agency, freedom, responsibility and fate that are prompted by reflections upon causality, chance and determinism. Finally, we consider arguments against both compatibilism and incompatibilism. We conclude that there is considerable overlap between the range of naturalist opinion and the range of religious opinion on these matters.
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References and Further Reading
P. van Inwagen (1983) An Essay on Free Will Oxford: Oxford University Press;
R. Taylor (1991) Metaphysics, fourth edition, London: Pearson;
G. Watson (ed.) (2003) Free Will, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Oppy, G. (2014). Cause, Freedom and Responsibility. In: Reinventing Philosophy of Religion: An Opinionated Introduction. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137434562_7
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