?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Solution+to+the+Problem+of+the+Freedom+of+the+Will&rft.creator=Dupr%C3%A9%2C+John&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=It+has+notoriously+been+supposed+that+the+doctrine+of+determinism+conflicts+with+the+belief+in+human+freedom.+Yet+it+is+not+readily+apparent+how+indeterminism%2C+the+denial+of+determinism%2C+makes+human+freedom+any+less+problematic.+It+has+sometimes+been+suggested+that+the+arrival+of+quantum+mechanics+should+immediately+have+solved+the+problem+of+free+will+and+determinism.+It+was+proposed%2C+perhaps+more+often+by+scientists+than+by+philosophers%2C+that+the+brain+would+need+only+to+be+fitted+with+a+device+for+amplifying+indeterministic+quantum+phenomena+for+the+bogey+of+determinism+to+be+defeated.+Acts+of+free+will+could+then+be+those+that+were+initiated+by+such+indeterministic+nudges.+Recently+there+has+been+some+inclination+to+revive+such+a+story+as+part+of+the+fallout+from+the+trend+for+chaos+theory.+Chaotic+systems+in+the+brain%2C+being+indefinitely+sensitive+to+the+precise+details+of+initial+conditions%2C+seem+to+provide+fine+candidates+for+the+hypothetical+amplifiers+of+quantum+events.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F341%2F1%2FFREEDOM.htm&rft.identifier=++Dupr%C3%A9%2C+John++(1995)+The+Solution+to+the+Problem+of+the+Freedom+of+the+Will.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F341%2F