GP, Mike Pence and Free Will
Last year the commentariat erupted in a frenzy of tut-tutting when it was revealed that Vice President Mike Pence has a personal rule never to eat alone with a woman other than his wife or attend events serving alcohol unless she is with him. I thought about this story yesterday during a fruitful discussion I had with gpuccio about the limits of free will. See comments 13-15 to this post. GP summed up his position as follows: I mean that we cannot really know what our real choices are, but that we always have choices. I will try to be more clear. Your example of an addict is very good for that. We could think that the choice for an addict Read More ›