Philosophy / Unit 4 Philosophy 0160 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Manipulation Objection
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The idea
The manipulation objection: if a manipulator implanted your desires, acting on them is not free—yet determinism, the objection runs, differs only in lacking a manipulator.
In practice
A neuroscientist programs a victim to want the crime and do it wantingly. Classical compatibilism must call that free.
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