dilemma of determinism

'That is the dilemma of determinism.

John Martin Fischer calls it the "Dilemma of Determinism."

William James was an American pragmatist philosopher who coined the term "soft determinist" in an influential essay titled The Dilemma of Determinism.

The need to reconcile freedom of will with a deterministic universe is known as the problem of free will or sometimes referred to as the dilemma of determinism.

In 1884 James set the terms for all future discussions of determinism and compatibilism in the free will debates with his lecture to Harvard Divinity School students published as "The Dilemma of Determinism."

(Related concerns are Hume's distinction between demonstrative and probable reasoning, Hume's law as the fact/value distinction between claims of is versus claims of ought, and Hume's "dilemma of determinism" as the problem that our actions are either causally determined or random.