Free Will Agnosticism

Incompatibilist Commitment and Moral Self‐Knowledge: The Epistemology of Libertarianism

“…Counterexamples abound. Here's a recent one from Kearns (: 242): Notwithstanding the fact that the existence of water requires the existence of H 2O , it's possible that a thinker who knows there's water is not also in a position to know there's H 2O (due to conceptual impoverishment, inadequate technology, etc. ).…”

“…Here's a second possible objection. One might worry that (3) depends on something like the following thought: “[T]hat we have free will is part of our everyday commonsense knowledge” (Kearns : 240). However, unlike (say) the proposition that we have hands, “[t]he proposition that we have free will is not [part of our commonsense body of knowledge].…”

“…In Sections III and IV, I'll explain, critically assess, and ultimately reject carefully developed versions of the Arguments from Empiricism and Excuse due to, respectively, Stephen Kearns () and John Maier ().…”

“…(cf. Kearns [: 243]: “It is not possible for us to gain conclusive evidence that action indeterminism is true without us doing [substantive empirical research in physics].”) So, there are no epistemically justified Libertarians.…”

“…(cf. Kearns [: 243]: “We simply cannot figure out that some of our actions… are undetermined from the armchair…”)…”