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Free Will and the Future of Humanity [PDF]
Future Human Image, 2020 This article presents the author’s attempt to analyze the argument “manipulation” versus “free will” by the philosopher Derk Pereboom. To demonstrate his position, Pereboom uses the “thought experiment” method, popular in analytical philosophy, and cites
Ruslan Myronenko
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On Flew’s Compatibilism and His Objections to Theistic Libertarianism [PDF]
, 2015 Flew strongly defends a compatibilist thesis in the free will debate before going on to totally object to theistic libertarianism. His objections basically rely on his compatibilism embracing the notion of agent causation, which is not very common in ...
Gundogdu, Hakan
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Experimental philosophy and moral responsibility [PDF]
, 2022 Can experimental philosophy help us answer central questions about the nature of moral responsibility, such as the question of whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism?
Björnsson, Gunnar
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Reflections on Sam Harris' "Free Will"
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 In his book Free Will Sam Harris tries to persuade us to abandon the morally pernicious idea of free will. The following contribution articulates and defends a more sophisticated model of free will that is not only consistent with neuroscience and ...
Daniel C. Dennett
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Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 How to deal with the ever more complex religious relationships is not only a significant issue for Chinese central government and the Communist Party but also a cutting-edge topic for the religious academy at home and abroad.
Zhigang Zhang
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From Inconsistency to Consistency of Theism and Darwinian Evolution: A Critical Approach to Four Perspectives [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015 In this paper, we present four philosophical approaches and their prominent advocates toward the problem of relationship between Darwinian evolution and theistic beliefs: (1) Atheistic Inconsistency: there is a deep conflict between Darwinian evolution ...
Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
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Criticizing of Daniel Dennett's Argument for Compatibilism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2016 The purpose of this article is to criticize Daniel Dennett's main argument which has been formulated to explain and justify the compatibility of Human's mental phenomena, particularly his free will, with causal determinism on the basis of ontological ...
Arash khaksari renani +1 more
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Van Inwagen, Divine Guidedness, and the Meaning of “Chance” [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 Are the meanings of “chance” and “guidedness” consistent? The goal of this article is toprovide an affirmative answer to this question and thereby defend compatibilism (or accommodationism), which is the position that evolutionary theory and ...
Mohammad Ebrahim Maghsoudi +1 more
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“Free Will and Affirmation: Assessing Honderich’s Third Way” [PDF]
, 2017 In the third and final part of his A Theory of Determinism (TD) Ted Honderich addresses the fundamental question concerning “the consequences of determinism.” The critical question he aims to answer is what follows if determinism is true?
B Waller +12 more
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Is Agentive Freedom a Secondary Quality?
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2022 The notion of a secondary property is usefully construed this way: sensory-perceptual experiences that present apparent instantiations of such a quality have intentional content—presentational content—that is systematically non-veridical, because the ...
Terence Horgan, Mark Timmons
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