This article, by Galen Strawson of Oxford University, appeared in the Times Literary Supplement(link is external) on June 26, 1998, and is an edited version of the article on “Free Will” here https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/strawsong/free_will.html
“Are we free agents? Can we be morally responsible for what we do? Philosophers distinguish these questions and have all the answers. Some say YES and YES (we are fully free, and wholly morally responsible for what we do). Others say YES and NO (certainly we are free agents – but we cannot be ultimately responsible for what we do). A third group says NO and NO (we are not free agents at all; a fortiori we cannot be morally responsible). A strange minority says NO and YES (we can be morally responsible for what we do even though we are not free agents). This view is rare, but it has a kind of existentialist panache, and appears to be embraced by Wintergreen in Joseph Heller’s novel Closing Time (1994), as well as by some Protestants.
Who is right?”
Read on here to find out: https://www.naturalism.org/philosophy/free-will/luck-swallows-everything
Know Thyself 