| Introduction to Philosophy | Notes | This is not a substitute for coming to class - or for reading the material. | Richard Lee |
| Philosophy 2003 | Copyright © 2007, Richard Lee | Spring 2007 | |
The Soft Determinist says:
P did A freely = P's doing A had as its immediate cause a psychological state in the agent.
But if Soft Determinism is true, then these psychological states themselves (like all other things) are causally determined.
So, they could not have been otherwise.
(See the Ingenious Physiologist Example.)