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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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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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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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Manipulation cases in free will and moral responsibility, part 2: Manipulator-focused responses. [PDF]
Philos CompassAbstract In this paper—Part 2 of 3—we discuss one of the two main types of soft‐line responses to manipulation cases, which we refer to as manipulator‐focused views. Manipulator‐focused views hold, roughly, that the reason that Victim lacks responsibility (or lacks full responsibility) is because of the way the action is related to the Manipulator ...
De Marco G, Cyr TW.
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Natural Compatibilism, Indeterminism, and Intrusive Metaphysics [PDF]
, 2020 The claim that common sense regards free will and moral responsibility as compatible with determinism has played a central role in both analytic and experimental philosophy. In this paper, we show that evidence in favor of this “natural compatibilism” is
Nichols, Shaun +7 more
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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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Compatibilism and the Free Will Defense [PDF]
, 2016 There’s a longstanding and widely endorsed argument that the free will defense is inconsistent with compatibilist views of free will. Indeed, Alvin Plantinga—the originator of the contemporary free will defense—claims that it’s obvious the free will ...
Michael Almeida, Almeida, Mike
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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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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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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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