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Letters
Letters
Free Debate • Splitter • Marks’ Manifesto • Russell Reaching Wilson’s Peak • Complementary Letters • Warning Signs • Memorybox • Still God Bothered
Free Debate
Dear Editor: Reading Michael Hauskeller’s article on Buridan’s Ass in PN 81, I was struck once again how arguments concerning free will always tend to beg the question by being expressed in language which implicitly relies on the existence of that which is to be established. Thus Professor Hauskeller bases his argument on ‘choices’ and ‘reasons for choices’, concepts in which free will is already embedded.
Since becoming a committed determinist, I no longer see myself as the originator of my actions or the author of my fate. I am an actor following a script which unfolds according to the dictates of the causal nexus. I am a spectator, watching my own thoughts and actions.
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