Free Will Watson Analysis
From Watson’s Introduction from “Free Will,” I’ll be focusing on part 1, and 2, which is ‘the problem of free will’, and ‘free will and determinism’. These sections show us that on a normal basis we pay attention to freedom referring to obvious restrictions on us, and it points out situations were our freedom can be restricted by less obvious things such as addictions, phobias, or brainwashing. This is what is referred to as free will, because it is a subtler type of freedom. Watson states, when we think of free will as having these restrictions stated above, there are certain people who don’t have it. He shows us the issue that sometimes free will is thought of nothing more than an illusion. This thought can unsettle a person, which is what