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Analysis, doi:10.1093/analys/anp135
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Fatalism and the necessity of the present: reply to Campbell

Roberto Loss

University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK apxrl2@nottingham.ac.uk

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   1. Introduction
 
Joseph Keim Campbell (2007) has argued that the reliance of Peter van Inwagen's (1983) Third Argument for Incompatibilism (TA) on the existence of a remote past bears on the import of its conclusion: since the existence of a remote past is only a contingent feature of our world, TA fails to prove that the free will thesis is necessarily incompatible with determinism. In response, I have proposed a new version of the Third Argument (RTA), which – by exploiting and developing further Anthony Bruckner's (2008) retooled version of TA – does not rely on the existence of either a remote or a recent . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   2. Campbell's argument
 

   3. The ability to do otherwise (before it is too late)
 

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