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A Libertarian Response to Dennett and Harris on Free Will
This article critically examines central arguments made in Sam Harris’ Free Will as well as key aspects of Daniel Dennett’s compatibilist conception of free will.
John Lemos
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Physicalism and moral responsibility: presentation of derivative consequence argument [PDF]
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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Stoicism and Frankfurtian Compatibilism
Although the free will debate of contemporary analytic philosophy lacks almost any kind of historical perspective, some scholars (for instance Zimmerman 2000; Salles 2001, 2005) have pointed out a striking similarity between Stoic approaches to free ...
László Bernáth
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On the Viability of Semi-Compatibilism [PDF]
Semi-compatibilism regarding responsibility is the position according to which determinism is compatible with moral responsibility quite apart from whether determinism rules out the sort of freedom that involves access to alternative possibilities.
Ishtiyaque Haji
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The immediate aim of this paper is to articulate the essential features of an alternative compatibilist position, one that is responsive to sources of resistance to the compatibilist program based on considerations of fate and luck.
Russell, Paul
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Metaphysical and political freedom: overcoming the «conceptual abyss» [PDF]
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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The Truth in Compatibilism and the truth of Libertarianism [PDF]
The paper offers the outlines of a response to the often-made suggestion is that it is impossible to see how indeterminism could possibly provide us with anything that we might want in the way of freedom, anything that could really amount to control, as ...
Ekstrom L. +6 more
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Moral Responsibility, Justice, and Freedom [PDF]
Freedom, and in particular, the freedom of human beings, is a hot topic within the field of metaphysics. In this paper, instead of arguing for the truth of a particular position on freedom, I explore whether a particular position, compatibilism, might be
Smith, Jonathan
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Traditional Compatibilism Reformulated and Defended [PDF]
Traditional compatibilism about free will is widely considered to be untenable. In particular, the conditional analysis of the ability to do otherwise appears to be subject to clear counterexamples.
Schlosser, Markus E.
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