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Ginet's principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the given past [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualThis paper is a defense of the principle: All the worlds that are might-worlds in the world x are worlds that share some of their momentary states with x (A (possible) world y is a might-world in the world x if it is true in x that if someone were to do ...
van Inwagen Peter
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Criticizing of Daniel Dennett's Argument for Compatibilism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2016 The purpose of this article is to criticize Daniel Dennett's main argument which has been formulated to explain and justify the compatibility of Human's mental phenomena, particularly his free will, with causal determinism on the basis of ontological ...
Arash khaksari renani +1 more
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On Hartshorne’s Objections to Determinism and Compatibilism [PDF]
, 2014 The problem of determinism and human freedom, which is one of the great debates in philosophy, has been discussed many times by philosophers who have very distinctive perspectives and thereby different results related to the problem.
Gundogdu, Hakan
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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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Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine, 2022 In 1910, in the journal Hrvatsko kolo of Matica Hrvatska, Albert Bazala published his article “O slobodi volje” [“On the freedom of the will”], in which he argues for compatibilism between free will and determinism. In this article, I analyze Bazala’s compatibilism.
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Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 1, Page 102-129, January 2026.Abstract Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common‐sense conception of vision, and that this conception is captured by Direct Realism.
Eugen Fischer +2 more
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On the alleged shallowness of compatibilism: A critical study of Saul Smilansky: Free Will and Illusion [PDF]
, 2002 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] The millionaire’s idle, talentless and self-centered daughter inherits a large sum of money that she does not really deserve. The victim of kidnapping rots in a cell in 1980s Beirut in a captivity that springs not from any wrong he has
Lenman, James
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The bayesian and the abductivist
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 625-637, October 2025.Abstract In this article I engage with Kathryn Tanner's theological framework for understanding God's agency, focusing on the way her rules of non‐contrastive transcendence and non‐competitive immanence govern her account of God's acts of creation, providence, incarnation, and atonement.
Sameer Yadav
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The Reality of Contingency: Implications for Crisis Management
Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT We live in a time of overwhelming uncertainty. Whether it is the consequences of the 2025 global trade war, the war in Ukraine, the outbreak of new pandemics, the validity of knowledge, or the possible extinction of humans as a species, the power of contingency has never been so profound.
Simon Hollis, Magnus Ekengren
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