Problems for Alternative Analyses

Abstract

In this chapter, an inference to the best explanation for a contextualist account of regulative freedom is completed by arguing that this analysis has significant advantages over other views. The chapter begins by looking at rival contextualist analyses, offered by Hawthorne and Rieber. After this, the contextualist account is compared to incompatibilist and compatibilist invariant analyses. In particular, the chapter offers a critical discussion of some recent developments of compatibilist analyses’ of freedom, namely, a new conditional analysis, List’s account of agential possibilities and dispositional compatibilism. It is argued that, in all cases, a contextualist account of regulative freedom is preferable.