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Peter Van Inwagen Analysis

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Peter Van Inwagen presents an argument that free will, if understood as requiring that we could act otherwise than we do, is incompatible with determinism. This is a very significant claim, since if it were true, the only option for compatibilists would be to deny the widely-accepted thesis that freedom requires such an

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