ABSTRACT
It is commonly believed that this - the question of the freedom of the will - is the fundamental problem in the debate about determinism. Philosophers such as the soft determinists who have concluded that moral responsibility is compatible with determinism have generally agreed that that settles the difficulty, whether the will is free or not. The libertarians are likely to be less aggressive in attacking the evidence put forward by the determinists. Some philosophers have seemed to argue that we can have both determinism and freedom of the will. As a minimal presumption about human powers, it seems safe enough to concede that it is not within our power to change the laws of physics. It is one of the features of our view of causation that there are no individual causes, but only types of causes. Some determinists have seen that it is not freedom but moral responsibility that is at issue in Moore's analysis.
