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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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Evil, Freedom and Heaven [PDF]

, 2018
By far the most respected response by theists to the problem of evil is some version of the free will defense, which rests on the twin ideas that God could not create humans with free will without them committing evil acts, and that freedom is of such ...
Cushing, Simon
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Two intuitions about free will—Some afterthoughts

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract In 2014, Christian List and I published a paper that delineated our view regarding what it takes for an agent to act freely. We suggested that this requires the action to be endorsed by the agent and caused by this endorsement and yet not be necessitated.
Wlodek Rabinowicz
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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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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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Foreknowledge and causal determinism

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract I evaluate Patrick Todd's critique of the idea accepted by many, including (in contemporary philosophy) Nelson Pike and John Martin Fischer, that there can be non‐causal constraints on human actions (including basic actions). I suggest that Todd's critical reflections, although illuminating, are not persuasive.
John Martin Fischer
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The closed future

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Many philosophers take for granted that there is a strong pre‐theoretical intuition that the future is open and that it is worth trying to make sense of that intuition in theoretical terms. In this paper, I give a characterisation of the ordinary intuition in terms of three elements: our sense of agency, the difference in normativity between ...
Giuliano Torrengo
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Free Will and Modal Responsibility

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
In the last half-century increased awareness of modal issues has been brought to bear on the free will debate. It has been argued that the context dependence of possibility claims can be exploited to mount a defence of compatibilism, the idea being that ...
William Bondi Knowles
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A Critique of Alfred R Mele’s Work on Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy [PDF]

, 2018
The book, Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy (1995), by Alfred R. Mele, deals primarily with two main concepts, “self-control” and “individual autonomy,” and the relationship between them.
Das, Pujarini
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T. H. Green and Henry Sidgwick on free agency and the guise of the good

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 56-72, March 2025.
Abstract The history of the thesis of the guise of the good between Kant and Anscombe is not well understood. This article examines a notable disagreement over the thesis during this period, between Green and Sidgwick. It shows that Green accepts versions of the thesis concerning action and desire in one sense of “desire,” and that Sidgwick rejects the
E. E. Sheng
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