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Forget the Folk: Moral Responsibility Preservation Motives and Other Conditions for Compatibilism [PDF]
For years, experimental philosophers have attempted to discern whether laypeople find free will compatible with a scientifically deterministic understanding of the universe, yet no consensus has emerged.
Cory J. Clark +3 more
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The problem of liberty: The importance of theorizing about classical liberal philosophy in the compatibilism concept formation [PDF]
Introduction. Modern discussions about free will are reduced to the confrontation between compatibilism and incompatibilism. The desire of the former to connect the free will of the individual with physical conditioning actualizes the problem of ...
Petr P. Lang
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]
The usual compatibility debates concerning moral responsibility, determinism and indeterminism tend to be all-or-nothing ("Determinism rules out responsibility!", "Undetermined actions are too lucky to be free!"). The suggestion in this paper is that the
Kearns Stephen
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Free will and the desire for suicide in mental illness [PDF]
The desire to die brings about the most radical consequences that can occur in a human life. It therefore requires a high degree of justification. Questions have been raised as to whether this justification can be given in the case of a suicide desire in
Tobias Zürcher, Tobias Zürcher
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Theological Compatibilism and Essential Properties
Alvin Plantinga defends Theological Compatibilism (TC) and Essentialism about property possession (E). TC is the claim that human freedom to act otherwise and God's essential omniscience are compatible, while E is the claim that every individual entity ...
Nicola Ciprotti
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Demotivating Semi-Compatibilism [PDF]
In this paper, I explore some of the motivations behind John Martin Fischer's semi-compatibilism. Particularly, I look at three reasons Fischer gives for preferring semi-compatibilism to libertarianism. I argue that the first two of these motivations are
Kevin Timpe
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Do we have (in)compatibilist intuitions? Surveying experimental research [PDF]
This article critically examines the experimental philosophy of free will, particularly the interplay between ordinary individuals’ compatibilist and incompatibilist intuitions.
Kiichi Inarimori +4 more
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Compatibilism and Conscious Will
Daniel Dennett’s compatibilism based on redefining free will via broadening the concept of self to include unconscious processes seems to disappoint certain intuitions.
Michaela Košová
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Free will, determinism, and compatibilism: Blind spots in the theoretical landscape [PDF]
Philosophical discourse on 'the' problem of free will has been shaped by three basic options: Libertarianism (accept free will and incompatibility, but deny determinism), hard determinism (accept determinism and incompatibility, but deny free will), and ...
Walter Sven
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For Whom Does Determinism Undermine Moral Responsibility? Surveying the Conditions for Free Will Across Cultures [PDF]
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, people are arguably not the ultimate source of their actions nor could they have done otherwise
Ivar R. Hannikainen +44 more
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