Getting the Fly out of the Bottle: The False Problem of Free Will and Determinism

Suppose someone were thus to see through the boorish simplicity of [this] concept of "free will" and put it out of his head altogether, I beg him to carry this enlightenment a step further, and also put out of his head the contrary of this monstrous conception of free will: I mean "unfree will." 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein liked to say that the true aim of philosophy is negative in nature.The aim of philosophy, he said, is not to induce correct ways of thinking, but to eradicate false philosophical problems-that is, to eradicate false ways of thinking that philosophical reflection itself engenders.Wittgenstein illustrated the aim with an analogy of a "fly" trapped in a "fly bottle." 2 The fly doesn't see the glass against which it repeatedly hits its head,