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Against Molinism: A Refutation of William Lane Craig\u27s Molinism [PDF]

, 2019
The debate concerning human free will, human moral culpability, and God’s sovereignty has raged for millennia within the Christian church. The recent rediscovery of the medieval philosophical theory known as Molinism brought Molinism to the fore of this ...
Clemons, Daniel T.
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Rethinking Moral Responsibility: The Case of the Evil-Natured Tyrants in Confucian Thought

Religions
In general, the justification for the divine punishment in the Christian cosmos hinges on the notion of free will. Despite doctrinal complexities involving sin, grace, and divine sovereignty, individuals are held morally responsible for choosing evil ...
Yunwoo Song
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Jamesian Free Will, The Two-stage Model Of William James [PDF]

, 2010
Research into two-stage models of “free will” – first “free” random generation of alternative possibilities, followed by “willed” adequately determined decisions consistent with character, values, and desires – suggests that William James was in 1884 the
Doyle, Bob
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Causalism: A Framework for Moral Responsibility

Crítica
This essay is based on the Gaos lectures given at UNAM in March 2025. The general topic is the metaphysical underpinnings of moral responsibility, both in its basic and non-basic forms.
Carolina Sartorio
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Divine Foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil: Four Views [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines the issues of divine foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil from the standpoint of four different theological systems: Open Theism, Arminianism, Molinism, and Calvinism.
Justice, Nathan S
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Neuroanatomy of the Will. [PDF]

NeuroSci, 2022
Sonne JWH.
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Nemesius of Emesa on Fate

Religions
This paper analyses the section of Nemesius of Emesa’s treatise On the Nature of Man dedicated to fate. The main objective is to analyse Nemesius’s response to the supporters of a notion of fate within the framework of astral determinism, Stoicism, and ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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FREEDOM AND DETERMINISM: A CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION

Zygon, 1987
. The problem of freedom of the will and determinism is one of the most intriguing and difficult in the whole area of philosophy. It constüutes a paradox.
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Free Will: Who Can Know [PDF]

I have inquired as to what sort of knowledge humans need to make justifiable claims regarding free will. I defended the thesis that humans do not have the sort of knowledge which would allow them to make such claims.
Zafer, Kılıç
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Free will and (in)determinism in the brain: a case for naturalized philosophy [PDF]

In this article we study the question of free will from an interdisciplinary angle, drawing on philosophy, neurobiology and physics. We start by reviewing relevant neurobiological findings on the functioning of the brain, notably as presented in (Koch ...
Blusiewicz, Tomasz, Vervoort, Louis
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