The Refutation of Compatibilism and Soft Determinism, and a New Proof of Real Incompatibilistic Free Agency: A Podcast.

by May 31, 2026

Marvin the Paranoid Android (GSD, 2026)

So you think that you’re both naturally determined and a free agent, and also 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? Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. In his essay, “The Refutation of Compatibilism and Soft Determinism, and a New Proof of Real Incompatibilistic Free Agency,” Robert Hanna refutes compatibilism and soft determinism alike, and then proceeds to a new proof that real incompatibilistic free agency really exists and that you, the reader of these very words, really have it.

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