[MD] Free Will

[X Acto]

Steve:
Why use a term when you can be nearly guaranteed to be misunderstood
when you use it? Who outside of the handful of people participating in
this forum would think you were defending the capacity to respond to
dynamic quality when you say people have free will? How is that
shorthand helpful even around here?

Ron:
Compatibilism in this context has been around for quite some time and believe it 
or
not would be understood by more than this forum. If you do a quick search on
the topic you find that there would not be much confusion at all in using these 
terms.
 
As Stanford encyclopedia writes:
".1 Free Will
It would be misleading to specify a strict definition of free will 
since in the philosophical work devoted to this notion there is probably
 no single concept of it. For the most part, what philosophers working on 
this issue have been hunting for, maybe not exclusively, but centrally, 
is a feature of agency that is necessary for persons to be morally 
responsible for their conduct."
 
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
 
 
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