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In “The Refutation of Compatibilism and Soft Determinism, Together With A New Proof That Incompatibilistic Real Free Agency Really Exists and That You Really Have It,” Robert Hanna argues against the thesis that you’re both naturally determined and a free agent, and also the thesis that this philosophical position, which combines “compatibilism”—i.e., the consistency of free will and universal natural determinism—and “soft determinism”—i.e., the conjunction of free will and universal natural determinism—is conceptually coherent. More precisely, Hanna refutes compatibilism and soft determinism alike, and then proceeds to a new proof that incompatibilistic real free agency really exists and that you, the reader of this very essay, really have it, based on the fact that since we can pretend to be machines, then necessarily we cannot be machines.
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