TY - JOUR
T1 - Can the incompatibilist get past the no past objection?
AU - ZHANG, Jiji
PY - 2013/10/21
Y1 - 2013/10/21
N2 - I refute Bailey's claim that his argument for incompatibilism is immune to Campbell's No Past Objection. In my refutation I stress a simple point, that nomological necessitation by future world states does not undermine one's freedom with respect to the present world state. My analysis reveals that the No Past Objection challenges van Inwagen's second consequence argument about as much as it does the others, and suggests that the (uncompromising) incompatibilist must pursue some of the options that Bailey regarded as costly in order to overcome the No Past Objection.
AB - I refute Bailey's claim that his argument for incompatibilism is immune to Campbell's No Past Objection. In my refutation I stress a simple point, that nomological necessitation by future world states does not undermine one's freedom with respect to the present world state. My analysis reveals that the No Past Objection challenges van Inwagen's second consequence argument about as much as it does the others, and suggests that the (uncompromising) incompatibilist must pursue some of the options that Bailey regarded as costly in order to overcome the No Past Objection.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/4149
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886654219&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1746-8361.12024
DO - 10.1111/1746-8361.12024
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0012-2017
VL - 67
SP - 345
EP - 352
JO - Dialectica
JF - Dialectica
IS - 3
ER -