ABSTRACT
David Hodgson’s claim that conscious experience plays a special role in enabling plausible reasoning is also somewhat mysterious. Hodgson believes that there is a great deal of evidence for the existence of non-algorithmic reasoning. Hodgson’s description of creativity, as a way of extending the limits of what is possible within a given domain, but without actually abandoning the domain, is insightful. Hodgson’s suggestion that true creativity requires unique properties seems unmotivated, and seems to multiply entities beyond necessity. Hodgson attempts to avoid the event of the agent’s just happening to decide one way or another by requiring that decision-making be temporally extended. There is no doubt that the view that David Hodgson presents is a genuinely innovative attempt to solve the central problem that besets libertarian accounts of free will. He marshals an impressive range of evidence, demonstrating that indeterministic decision-making is consistent with everything we know about contemporary science.
