incompatibilism

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ compatibilism or incompatible +‎ -ism.

Noun

incompatibilism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.

   Synonym: hard determinism

   Antonym: compatibilism

   • 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     Because pretty much the same thing goes on in us when we have become the sort of person who would pull a trigger, or run into a building to save a child, or steal an extra cookie, or advocate hard incompatibilism in a book destined to be read only by two people who will hate it.

Related terms

• incompatibilistic
• incompatibilist

Translations

Translations

• German: Inkompatibilismus (de) m

See also

• impossibilism