Determinism, Free Will and Internal Causation

Determinism, Free Will and Internal Causation

In this paper I argue that a coherent notion of libertarian free will requires a notion of “internal causation.” I argue that the traditional view that the main idea is whether free will is compatible with determinism or not is misguided, given the indeterministic character of our best sciences, including not only quantum mechanics (perhaps) but also general relativity and even newtonian mechanics. I argue that any libertarian notion of free will requires some idea of “internal causation” which is more or less agent causation.