TY - JOUR
T1 - Causal Decision Theory, Two-Boxing, and Deliberation-Compatibilism
T2 - A Reply to Sandgren and Williamson
AU - Solomon, Toby Charles Penhallurick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The possibility of predetermined choices raises a challenge for Causal Decision Theory [Ahmed 2014b]. Sandgren and Williamson [2021] have recently proposed a response—Selective Causal Decision Theory—that they hope will avoid Ahmed’s counterexamples, maintain (a particular kind of) compatibilism, and endorse universal Two-boxing in Newcomb’s Problem—CDT’s raison d’être. Their proposal does an admirable job of satisfying the first two desiderata. However, in this reply I raise several worries about whether it can satisfy the third.
AB - The possibility of predetermined choices raises a challenge for Causal Decision Theory [Ahmed 2014b]. Sandgren and Williamson [2021] have recently proposed a response—Selective Causal Decision Theory—that they hope will avoid Ahmed’s counterexamples, maintain (a particular kind of) compatibilism, and endorse universal Two-boxing in Newcomb’s Problem—CDT’s raison d’être. Their proposal does an admirable job of satisfying the first two desiderata. However, in this reply I raise several worries about whether it can satisfy the third.
KW - causal decision theory
KW - compatibilism
KW - deliberation-compatibilism
KW - determinism
KW - free will
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116460894&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00048402.2021.1968448
DO - 10.1080/00048402.2021.1968448
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 0004-8402
VL - 100
SP - 620
EP - 627
JO - Australasian Journal of Philosophy
JF - Australasian Journal of Philosophy
IS - 3
ER -