[MD] Compatiblism

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Ian,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Ian Glendinning
<ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Steve, but when people say
>
> "Compatibilism is the position that free will and determinism are compatible
> rather than mutually exclusive positions."
>
> They are not (cannot be) using the SEP definition of determinism you cite in
> (2)
>
> They are using a less greedy definition - a la Dennett (who you also cite).

Steve:
Yes, that (2) is describing the Classical Incompatiblist formulation
of the issue. Obviously a compatiblist doesn't define free will as the
absence of complete determinism and determinism as the absence of free
will. But this is exactly the formulation that dmb has been insisting
on for some time.