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TOPIC TWO: FREE WILL Free will is an unsettled problem that poses an uncertain outcome. Descartes and Searle make claims about free will. Descartes bases his findings on substance dualism, where reality is made into two radically different properties like mind and matter. Searle believes in property dualism, which consists of two irreducibly different properties like mental and physical. I’ll show you what they both mean by “free will” and if they think our will is free. I’ll then give reasons for the claims they make about the freedom of the will and why Searle thinks free will is problematic and whether Descartes thinks so also. I will then conclude with my thoughts on free will and whether or not it is problematic. Descartes believes that will is the chief basis for understanding and that bears in some way the image or likeness of God. Descartes compares his will to God’s and realizes that in an essential, strict sense God’s doesn’t seem any greater. The will consists of our ability to do or not do something. It also consists in the fact when something put forward for our intellect to discover, we have to decide in a direction like for or against, and in a way that we feel we’re determined by