Free will

Swinburne shares that “human actions are not predetermined by brain-states (and so that in a crucial sense, humans have free will); and that the human soul has a complex, continuing structure to it, a character which does not arise solely from the brain-state to which it is linked.” he continues, “but my thesis is that humans have the power to choose between desires of equal strength, and the power to resist desire and do what they believe more worth while, and that their choice is not necessitated by brain- or other events. . . . i believe that it follows from this and from the fact that humans have beliefs about what is morally good to do and what is morally wrong to do, that they can properly be praised for doing what they believe good to do and blamed for doing what they believe wrong to do; and so are morally responsible.”

Stan Lennard