Timeline for answer to Strawson on Free Will: What are the most persuasive challenges to his position? by Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
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| Mar 5, 2024 at 14:36 | comment | added | philosodad | I would argue that we haven't learned at all that certain kinds of infinite regress are possible, we've just learned that certain kinds of discrete models are bad for certain purposes. | |
| Dec 29, 2022 at 21:58 | comment | added | Double Knot | My intuition always seems the cases of sensibility of infinite regress if possible is always in (math, metaphysical) theoretical realm, for physical realm at our level it’s impossible thus famously Diogenes demoed his objection to Zeno’s claim. Strawson above apparently talked about in physical neural domain of decisions, thus implicitly there may not be such gap claimed above. This also explains away your determinism analogy since it could be now at metaphysical realm… | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 11:12 | history | edited | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed some typos and improved wording
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| Dec 28, 2022 at 9:33 | history | edited | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified that the version I’m treating is Studebaker’s paraphrase
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| Dec 28, 2022 at 8:48 | comment | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | @Futilitarian: I presume he has the latter (reasonable) position in mind — but he argues for it by appealing to the former (fallacious) principle, simply finding an infinite regress and then declaring “impossible!” An argument for why this specific infinite regress is unacceptable could very reasonably fill that gap — but he doesn’t give such an argument here, and it’s far from self-evident. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 6:04 | comment | added | barbecue | It's turtles all the way down. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 5:41 | comment | added | Futilitarian | But is Strawson saying an infinite regress is impossible? Or is he just pointing out that such a regress when applied to the process of decision-making renders our typical conception of decision-making untenable? | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 23:20 | history | answered | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |