Libertarian free will

The metaphysical claim that a genuine choice is not settled by the past and the laws until the agent settles it.

In philosophy, “libertarian” here has nothing to do with markets or with a party. It names a demand for open alternatives of a strong kind. The view faces questions about luck and about what, in the agent, makes one alternative rather than another happen. Those questions are problems, not a score.

Six axes

• Freedom

Philosophers

• Immanuel Kant
• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Arguments for Incompatibilism”