Dennett’s “Free Will” vs a Free Will Not Worth Wanting

Daniel Dennett, author of Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wantingand Freedom Evolves,is a philosopher that is considered a free will “compatibilist”. What this means is that Dennett accepts that the universe is deterministic orthat even if there was indeterminism, such wouldn’t help free will such aswhatlibertarians think (different than political libertarians) – but at the same time he thinks free will is compatible with determinism.

On the other hand, hard determinists and har...