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Conditional analysis of free will and consequence argument [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
The conditional analysis of the meaning of the phrase “free will” is a classical compatibilist strategy, first introduced by David Hume and still widely used by compatibilists. The consequence argument is an influential argument against compatibilism.
M. A. Sekatskaya
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The Generalized Criterion of Relevance for Argument Evaluation [PDF]

Future Human Image, 2021
The paper is devoted to the relevance criterion of argument evaluation within argumentation theory. Argument evaluation is a tool to avoid misunderstanding and misleading in argumentation — one of the most basic forms of human communications. The purpose
Viktoriia Babiuk
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Physicalism and moral responsibility: presentation of derivative consequence argument [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
In this paper, the author introduces the derivative consequence argument, which aims to demonstrate that moral responsibility is impossible in the world where physicalism and the strong realism about the laws of nature are both true.
B. V. Faul
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New version of derivative consequence argument and response to objections [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
In this paper, I respond to the objections and comments, which are raised by D. Razeev, T. Demin, and M. Sekatskaya. I provide a new formulation of the argument, which avoids all the problems mentioned by these philosophers in their papers and at the ...
B. V. Faul
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Counterfactuals, counteractuals, and free choice [PDF]

, 2021
In a recent paper, Pruss proves the validity of the rule beta-2 relative to Lewis’s semantics for counterfactuals, which is a significant step forward in the debate about the consequence argument.
Lampert, Fabio, Merlussi, Pedro
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Overgeneration in the Higher Infinite [PDF]

, 2021
The Overgeneration Argument is a prominent objection against the model-theoretic account of logical consequence for second-order languages. In previous work we have offered a reconstruction of this argument which locates its source in the conflict ...
Florio, Salvatore, Incurvati, Luca
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Determinism, Counterfactuals, and the Possibility of Time Travel

Philosophies, 2023
The Consequence argument is an argument from plausible premises–our lack of causal power over the laws and past–to an implausible conclusion: that if determinism is true, we are equally powerless with respect to the future.
Kadri Vihvelin
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Evaluating Etchemendy's Critiques of Tarski’s Analysis of Logical Consequence [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
According to Tarski's model-theoretic analysis of logical consequence, the sentence X is a logical consequence of a set of sentences Γ if and only if any model for Γ is also a model for X.
Hamid Alaeinejad, Morteza Hajhosseini
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To what theories of laws of nature B. Faul’s argument is applicable? [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
The derivative argument of the consequences is aimed at proving the incompatibility of certain theories of the laws of nature in conjunction with physicalism and the existence of moral responsibility.
T. S. Demin
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Evaluation of Frankfurt's Viewpoint in the Face of Indirect Consequence Argument [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017
The different versions of van Inwagen’s indirect argument for the incompatibility of causal determinism and moral responsibility asserts that (1) the causal necessity and determination indicates that human actions are the results of past events and the ...
Javad Danesh
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