I think you mean “determinism being false...”, the rest of your comment makes sense in that context.
In which case I think you’re saying, if determinism is false, libertarian free will would be possible. And since that’s true, when I suggest that we should define free will in relation to our (lack of) knoweldge about the world, I’m dismissing the possibly better definition given by a libertarian free will perspective.
Is that right?
If so I think that’s right. I do think there are arguments against libertarian free will that hold even if determinism is false, but I don’t make any such arguments in the post, it doesn’t address the question of the validity of libertarian free will at all, and to the extent that I want to make a positive claim with the piece, that is probably a flaw. I’ll consider making a minor edit to the substack version of the article that at least mentions this, though I probably won’t try to make the argument against libertarian free will as the piece is already long enough as it is.
Thanks for pointing this out, I did legitimately miss that.
(And if I misunderstood your point and you were saying something else please let me know!)
I think you mean “determinism being false...”, the rest of your comment makes sense in that context.
In which case I think you’re saying, if determinism is false, libertarian free will would be possible. And since that’s true, when I suggest that we should define free will in relation to our (lack of) knoweldge about the world, I’m dismissing the possibly better definition given by a libertarian free will perspective.
Is that right?
If so I think that’s right. I do think there are arguments against libertarian free will that hold even if determinism is false, but I don’t make any such arguments in the post, it doesn’t address the question of the validity of libertarian free will at all, and to the extent that I want to make a positive claim with the piece, that is probably a flaw. I’ll consider making a minor edit to the substack version of the article that at least mentions this, though I probably won’t try to make the argument against libertarian free will as the piece is already long enough as it is.
Thanks for pointing this out, I did legitimately miss that.
(And if I misunderstood your point and you were saying something else please let me know!)