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Reason Compatible With Determinism
- Bloom stresses that conscious reasoning and choice are compatible with a deterministic worldview.
- He argues this compatibility undermines extreme readings that dismiss agency entirely.
Two Different Threats To Agency
- The debate conflates two separate claims: that deliberation is central to agency and that reasoning is inert.
- Bloom distinguishes defending rational deliberation from endorsing metaphysical libertarian free will.
Rejecting Libertarian Free Will, Keeping Choice
- Bloom says he doubts traditional notions of metaphysical free will but affirms that people deliberate and make choices.
- He accepts that folk psychological terms (choose, decide) remain useful even under a deterministic account.