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In this essay, I argue that Keith Lehrer’s account of freedom of choice, when allied to the Performance/Competence distinction commonly deployed in Cognitive Science helps us distinguish the human capacity for freedom, which looks free and “uncaused”, as Sartre influentially puts it in Being & Nothingness, from the external/performance aspects of freedom. Analytic philosophers have been hitherto preoccupied with the latter, performance aspect of freedom.Attending to the internal aspect, that is, the capacity for freedom helps us form a richer and more complete picture of the possibilities of human freedom. This approach ties Lehrer’s innovative account of free will with the broader rationalist tradition in Cognitive Science and Philosophy, and allows us to better appreciate the Sartrean strain in Lehrer’s work.

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The Sludge Runs Over: The Possibilities of Freedom

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    2025年

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  • Ritwik Agrawal

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In this essay, I argue that Keith Lehrer’s account of freedom of choice, when allied to the Performance/Competence distinction commonly deployed in Cognitive Science helps us distinguish the human capacity for freedom, which looks free and “uncaused”, as Sartre influentially puts it in Being & Nothingness, from the external/performance aspects of freedom. Analytic philosophers have been hitherto preoccupied with the latter, performance aspect of freedom.Attending to the internal aspect, that is, the capacity for freedom helps us form a richer and more complete picture of the possibilities of human freedom. This approach ties Lehrer’s innovative account of free will with the broader rationalist tradition in Cognitive Science and Philosophy, and allows us to better appreciate the Sartrean strain in Lehrer’s work.