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Free Deliberation

In the first part of this article, I expose what does it mean for an agent to deliberate about some future action. Since deliberation is a mental event, or series of mental events, it is therefore a kind of action also. I show then, that under the supposition that determinism is the case, then deliberation, in its usual sense, does not exist. But, this is not acceptable. Deliberation, to be a real source of free action, itself has to be free, or form of a free (mental) action. Steps in human deliberating must not be inevitable products of laws of nature and a certain (initial) state of the universe. In the second part of the article I offer a theistic argument for libertarian freedom of the will and freedom of the action. Most people has a very strong feeling that unil time t they can do A or that they can refrain, until t, from doing A, and that they can deliberate intentionally about what to do, weighing reasons for and against doing A. Concerning God, God is a perfect being. God does not, therefore lie and He is not a deceiver. God created human beings who have strong intuition that they can do A or not-A at t, and since God is not a deceiver, that intuition must be truthful. So, human beings posses free will in libertarian sense and they can deliberate genuinely freely.

God, Actish phenomenal feeling ; Deliberation, Determinism, Freedom

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