Regarding free will, the metaphysics of choice are not actually what is at issue when the list mentions “autonomy”, “self-determination”, “agency”, and “activity”.
However, there doesn’t appear to be a clear ‘Schelling line’ between the metaphysics of choice and what you do mean by those terms. Thus people and movements that start out arguing against free-will tend to end up arguing against “autonomy”, “self-determination”, and “agency” in the sense you mean.
If we go with the assumption that humans are strictly deterministic machines, “autonomy” could be thought of as the degree to which it’s easier to predict a human’s future actions by looking at their internal state, rather than by looking at the orders they receive.
Is it at all useful to think of the issue in terms of “treating people as if they had free will/autonomy/etc, as a reasonable way of dealing with the fact that we can’t model each other to a consistently acceptable degree of accuracy”?
However, there doesn’t appear to be a clear ‘Schelling line’ between the metaphysics of choice and what you do mean by those terms. Thus people and movements that start out arguing against free-will tend to end up arguing against “autonomy”, “self-determination”, and “agency” in the sense you mean.
If we go with the assumption that humans are strictly deterministic machines, “autonomy” could be thought of as the degree to which it’s easier to predict a human’s future actions by looking at their internal state, rather than by looking at the orders they receive.
Is it at all useful to think of the issue in terms of “treating people as if they had free will/autonomy/etc, as a reasonable way of dealing with the fact that we can’t model each other to a consistently acceptable degree of accuracy”?