Wikiphilosophers/Free will

Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action. The question is whether free will really exists. Are our actions predetermined or do we really control what we will do?

Read users' philosophical views below.

• S. Perquin argues that free will is an illusion because all events, including human thoughts and actions, are determined by natural laws and past events, making everything predetermined from the beginning of the universe. Read more...