Abstract

We investigate two formal arguments familiar to free will scholars and central to the work of Peter van Inwagen: the consequence argument (CA) and the Mind argument (MA). While CA is an argument for the incompatibility of free will and determinism, the version of the Mind argument we consider argues for a tension between free will and in determinism. Together the arguments support the view that no one has free will. Our study and comparison of the arguments show that CA and MA have the same determinism-independent core. This is an odd result, and at the end of the paper we discuss interpretations of these findings.

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