Let's define the free will thesis as the thesis that at least one non-godlike creature has free will.
(Equivalently, compatibilism is the claim that possibly, determinism and the free will thesis are both true).
Since the conscious will is not causal, the Free Will Thesis is false.
We won't assume that the free will thesis is true or even possibly true, but let a free will world be any possible world where the free will thesis is true.
(HEFCE, 2011, p. 6) The free market thesis purports that competition can simultaneously increase efficiency and drive up quality.
(Equivalently, incompatibilism is the claim that necessarily, if determinism is true, then the free will thesis is false).
The free will thesis is a minimal claim about free will; it would be true if one person in the universe acted with free will on one occasion.
A defining tenet of the neoliberal free market thesis is the claim that market-based provision of HE can drive up quality.
Against the Free Will Thesis, Nietzsche argues that a free agent (that is, one sufficiently free to be morally responsible) would have to be causa sui (i.e., self-caused, or the cause of itself); but since we are not causa sui, no one can be a free agent.
'To deny the free-will thesis is to deny the existence of moral responsibility, which would be absurd … therefore, we should reject determinism', says van Inwagen, which is just begging the question, not proving the assertion (1983, p. 223).
