Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. Pla
Alvin Plantinga in 2004
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Free will is generally understood as the capacity or ability of people to choose between different possible courses of action, exercise control over their actions in a way that is necessary for moral
Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense
…and omnibenevolence) are logically incompatible with the existence of evil. The logical argument from evil argued by J. L. Mackie, and to which the free-will defense responds, is an argument against the existence of God based on the idea that a logical contradiction exists between four theological tenets…
A dirt jumper performing a trick, according to some interpretations, is the result of free will.
A domino's movement is determined completely by laws of physics.
René Descartes
Thomas Hobbes was a classical compatibilist.