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Immanuel Kant

Kant versus Hume on the Necessary Connection

Stuart Greenstreet finds that free will and determinism really do go together.

Samuel Johnson got to the core of philosophy's hardest problem in one line: “All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.” Theory denies the will is free because science doesn't exempt human beings from the causal laws which determine the behaviour of all other natural phenomena. Yet at any moment of decision our actual experience is of choosing freely what to do, with no hint of external constraint.

The concept of causality is that of a necessary connection between events. One event must always follow another in accordance with a universal rule.

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