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An Emergentist Approach to Phenomenal Causality

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophers have long debated whether phenomenal properties can play genuine causal roles. In this article, I aim to develop an emergentist approach to phenomenal causality, an approach that attributes novel causal powers to phenomenal properties and rejects the causal closure of physics.
Lei Zhong
wiley   +1 more source

Accepting Moral Luck [PDF]

, 2019
I argue that certain kinds of luck can partially determine an agent’s praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. To make this view clearer, consider some examples.
Hartman, Robert J.
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PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj  

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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Experimental philosophy and moral responsibility [PDF]

, 2022
Can experimental philosophy help us answer central questions about the nature of moral responsibility, such as the question of whether moral responsibility is compatible with determinism?
Björnsson, Gunnar
core  

Can Soft‐Line Compatibilism Handle Eternally Recurrent Manipulation?

Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT A key challenge to compatibilism comes from manipulation arguments. These argue that agents whose actions are manipulated are not morally responsible and that manipulation is not relevantly different from determinism. One common response from compatibilists is to claim that there is a relevant difference between manipulation and ordinary ...
James Andow
wiley   +1 more source

Compatibilism and Conscious Will

Filosofie Dnes, 2015
Daniel Dennett’s compatibilism based on redefining free will via broadening the concept of self to include unconscious processes seems to disappoint certain intuitions.
Michaela Košová
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From Inconsistency to Consistency of Theism and Darwinian Evolution: A Critical Approach to Four Perspectives [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
In this paper, we present four philosophical approaches and their prominent advocates toward the problem of relationship between Darwinian evolution and theistic beliefs: (1) Atheistic Inconsistency: there is a deep conflict between Darwinian evolution ...
Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
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On ‘the Central Argument’ of ‘Freedom and Resentment’: Hieronymi, Russell, and Strawson

Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT P. F. Strawson's 1962 essay ‘Freedom and Resentment’ has been enormously influential for the contemporary responsibility discussion. It nevertheless remains contested how the essay is to be understood, and what the central argument is, if there even is any such.
Anton Emilsson
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