There are many different theories on free will. I will focus on the three most predominant views: hard determinism, soft determinism and self-determinism. Hard determinists believe in the strict sense of determinism and that all of our actions are caused by either or environment or heredity. Thus we do not posses any free will at all. On the opposite side there is self- determinists who believe that determinism in the strict sense is false and for some human acts. Thus in those cases the acts are a result from our own free will. Hence we have free will. The last view is soft determinism, which believes in determinism in the strict sense but never the less some acts are free. Hence free will does exist and it is compatible with determinism. Another view, which I will not touch on in this paper, is called Indeterm

“The free acts are all caused by desires, or motives, or by some sort of internal psychological states of the agent’s mind. Then un free acts, on the other hand, are all caused by physical forces or physical conditions outside the agent (Stance122).”

Thus according to self- determinism; determinism claims that for every act A, there is a set of conditions C1….Cn, such that given their occurrence, A must occur to the exclusion of all else. That is, determinism claims that since all acts are events, they must be produced by other events, namely the conditions C1….Cn. But according to self- determinists that is false. Some acts, however few, are caused or initiated by me, a person, and not by a set of conditions or events. This, self- determinism is the denial of the strict interpretation of determinism.

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