Keeping Determinism, Ditching Materialism: A Bohmian Account of Compatibilist Free Will and its Relationship to Criminal Responsibility

Volume 14 No 3 (2016)

Andrew J. Marlow

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2016.14.3.900

Abstract

The contribution of quantum mechanics to the debate on whether free will exists is usually limited to considerations of how the indeterminism implied by certain interpretations of quantum mechanics might allow room for free will where the classical determinism of Newtonian mechanics seemingly would not. However, this Paper advances the idea that such arguments are flawed, as they cannot account for how an agent would exercise control over an indeterministic choice, which could just as easily be resolved by chance or randomness

Keywords

free will, determinism, indeterminism, Bohm, compatibilism

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