Matthias Steup (Steup 2008) has recently argued that our doxastic attitudes are free by (i) drawing an analogy with compatibilism about freedom of action and (ii) denying that it is a necessary condition for believing at will that S's having an intention to believe that p can cause S to believe that p. In this paper, however, I argue that the strategies espoused in (i) and (ii) are incompatible.
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Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington
Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, IN
Victoria University of Wellington, Department of Philosophy, WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, Wellington