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me? I don't understand, aren't there all sorts of different schools of philosophy and ways of looking at the world? Wouldn't studying philosophy help me find counter-examples that may expand my worldview? Compatibilism is probably my default position, but studying philosophy I may have that position challenged, isn't that the goal of studying any field of inquiry? To engage with new ideas?


What compatiblism is saying would be ok in an academic context if they define a new term like consistency instead of hijack free will to mean something else entirely. But even then, consistency of behavior in a deterministic world would not lead to the possibility of moral responsibility unless you also hijack that term and give it a different meaning.




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