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What percentage of people believe in libertarian free will? How many people believe we have free will, but that this free will is compatible with determinism? Is it intelligible to say that compatibilist free will is genuinely free will? If the universe or God determines our choices, how can they be free?

Ville Kokko As for lay opinions, Bound by Shaun Nichols (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...) presents empirical studies indicating roughly that people on th…moreAs for lay opinions, Bound by Shaun Nichols (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...) presents empirical studies indicating roughly that people on the whole tend to believe both that determinism contradicts free will, but also that free choices have causes, which without some fancy and in my view pointless philosophical word play contradicts indeterminism. I think this hints at the real truth behind the issue: the common intuition about freedom is self-contradictory and basically wants to
a) deny determinism but embrace its concrete consequences (or rather, characteristics of freedom for which determinism is a necessary but not sufficient condition), and
b) affirm indeterminism but deny all its concrete consequences.(less)

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