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Traditional Compatibilism Reformulated and Defended [PDF]
, 2017 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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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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, 2017 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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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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RSC Advances, 2022 Comparing the effect of a compatibilizer on the crystallinity of a semicrystalline polymer blend and its individual components is a facile way to predict the location and morphology of the compatibilizer.
Xiaomin Tang +10 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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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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A Libertarian Response to Dennett and Harris on Free Will
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 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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“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?
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