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Compatibilist's Challenges on Encountering with the Zygote Argument of Manipulation [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
In compatibilists believe that we cannot act freely and be morally responsible for an action in a deterministic world, while compatibilists don’t deny the possibility of free action and moral responsibility for the agent, and they believe that we can ...
Zahra Khazaei, Sara Sotoudehnia, Mohsen Javadi   +2 more
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Can Physics Make Us Free?

Frontiers in Physics, 2017
A thoroughly physical view on reality and our common sense view on agency and free will seem to be in a direct conflict with each other: if everything that happens is determined by prior physical events, so too are all our actions and conscious decisions;
Tuomas K. Pernu, Tuomas K. Pernu
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Unable to Do the Impossible [PDF]

, 2020
Jack Spencer has recently argued for the striking thesis that, possibly, an agent is able to do the impossible—that is, perform an action that is metaphysically impossible for that person to perform.
Nguyen, Anthony
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On Horgan's Causal Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2003
It is quite obvious why the antireductionist picture of mental causation, which rests on supervenience, is such an attractive theory. On one side it secures the mental a preservation of its unique and different nature; on the other side it tries to place
Bregant, Janez
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Sadraies on Divine Free-Will: a Critical Survey [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2014
Are ‘Divine freedom’ and ‘necessity of His will and action’ compatible? There are two different answers to this theological question: compatibilism, which confirms the compatibility of these doctrines, and incompatibilism, which claims that those beliefs
Saeed Moghadas, ahmad behashti
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Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2010
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
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The Metaphysics of Free Will: A Critique of Free Won’t as Double Prevention [PDF]

, 2015
The problem of free will is deeply linked with the causal relevance of mental events. The causal exclusion argument claims that, in order to be causally relevant, mental events must be identical to physical events.
Grasso, Matteo
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Daniel Dennett’s and Sam Harris’ Confrontation on the Problem of Free Will [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020
This paper seeks to explain and evaluate, by an analytic method, the conflict between determinism and free will from the viewpoint of two physicalist reductionist philosophers, namely, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. Dennett is a compatibilist philosopher
zahra khazaei, Nancey Murphy, Tayyebe Gholami   +2 more
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What Do Buddhists Think about Free Will? [PDF]

, 2017
A critical overview to the bulk of extant Buddhist theories of free ...
Repetti, Rick
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Building blocks of ‘free will’: In conversation with Dick Swaab

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The issue of free will is a complex one that has occupied the minds of many theologians and philosophers through the ages. The two main aspects of free will are the freedom to do otherwise and the power of self-determination.
Chris Jones, Dawie J. van den Heever
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