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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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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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The problem of liberty: The importance of theorizing about classical liberal philosophy in the compatibilism concept formation [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика, 2023 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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Physicalism and moral responsibility: presentation of derivative consequence argument [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020 In this paper, the author introduces the derivative consequence argument, which aims to demonstrate that moral responsibility is impossible in the world where physicalism and the strong realism about the laws of nature are both true.
B. V. Faul
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Ionic Compatibilization of Polymers [PDF]
ACS Polymers Au, 2022 The small specific entropy of mixing of high molecular weight polymers implies that most blends of dissimilar polymers are immiscible with poor physical properties. Historically, a wide range of compatibilization strategies have been pursued, including the addition of copolymers or emulsifiers or installing complementary reactive groups that can ...
Glenn H. Fredrickson +9 more
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, 2021 The vast majority of philosophers accept Assertion Incompatibilism: according to this view, given intuitive variability of proper assertion with practical stakes, non-shifty invariantism (NSI) is incompatible with a biconditional knowledge norm of ...
Simion, Mona, Mona Simion
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DRETSKE ON METAPHYSICS AND FREEDOM; pp. 173–178 [PDF]
Trames, 2009 In this paper, Fred Dretskeâs component theory of action is evaluated. Dretske claims that in his theory reasons are parts or components of action. Thus, reasons do not cause actions because a part cannot cause the whole whose part it is.
Olli Koistinen
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Metaphysical and political freedom: overcoming the «conceptual abyss» [PDF]
International Journal of Slavic Studies, 2021 The article is devoted to the presentation of metaphysical ideas about the free will of the individual, hidden in political ideologies, through conceptual analysis and the thesaurus of analytical philosophy. In this paper, we analyze the extent to which
Гонтар Василь Едуардович
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualThe 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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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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