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Stoicism and Frankfurtian Compatibilism
Elpis, 2018 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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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 Replication Argument for Incompatibilism [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I articulate an argument for incompatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism. My argument comes in the form of an extended story, modeled loosely on Peter van Inwagen’s “rollback argument” scenario.
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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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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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The Role of Various Readings of Free Will in the Use of Punishment Theories (Focused on Mulla Sadra's View) [PDF]
حکمت صدرایی, 2020 Free will is one of the philosophical topics that have important and significant function in the humanities. Various readings of free will have been provided; each of these readings has functions in the humanities that are completely different from other
Mohammad Hosseinzadeh
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Moral Responsibility, Justice, and Freedom [PDF]
, 2020 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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On Flew’s Compatibilism and His Objections to Theistic Libertarianism [PDF]
, 2015 Flew strongly defends a compatibilist thesis in the free will debate before going on to totally object to theistic libertarianism. His objections basically rely on his compatibilism embracing the notion of agent causation, which is not very common in ...
Gundogdu, Hakan
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Free Will in Averroes’ Compatibilism [PDF]
International Journal of Islamic ThoughtAverroes, a prominent Islamic philosopher, reconciled divine omniscience with human free will through a compatibilist framework. He argued that God’s foreknowledge does not necessitate determinism; instead, it re?lects the reality of events as they ...
Ahmad Sunawari Long +2 more
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Organon F, 2019 Freedom or control of how we act is often and very naturally understood as a kind of power—a power to determine for ourselves how we act. Is freedom conceived as such a power possible, and what kind of power must it be?
Thomas Pink
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