Discussion: Internal impediments

Discussion: Internal impediments

Not everything that it's ‘possible’ FOR you to do is something it's ‘possible’ THAT you will do. The compatibilist freedom formula ‘absence of impediments’ must embrace external and internal – including psychological – impediments. Desires are impediments only when they impede, owing to mo...

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Published in:Philosophy (London) Vol. 88; no. 2; pp. 313 - 315
Main Author: Goldstick, D.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01-04-2013
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Philosophy
United States > US
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Summary:Not everything that it's ‘possible’ FOR you to do is something it's ‘possible’ THAT you will do. The compatibilist freedom formula ‘absence of impediments’ must embrace external and internal – including psychological – impediments. Desires are impediments only when they impede, owing to motivational conflict. But other impediments, external or internal, require merely the potential to impede.
ISSN:0031-8191
1469-817X
DOI:10.1017/S0031819113000065