Causation and the Free Will Debate

In the debate over free will, free will deniers invariably offer three arguments against the reality of libertarian free will. They argue that nature is deterministic, that the mind is wholly a material phenomenon, and that "causation" is an incoherent concept if we accept indeterminism and free will.

The error in their first two arguments -- that nature is deterministic and that the mind is wholly material -- is obvious, as I have pointed out. Now I'll address their third critique of free w...