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On derivative consequence argument [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020 The article gives critical remarks to the derivative consequence argument proposed by Bogdan Faul. The first critical remark concerns the ontological status of the laws of nature, the second remark deals with the term «physicalism». It is demonstrated
D. N. Razeev
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The Consequence of the Consequence Argument
Kriterion (Austria), 2020 Abstract The aim of my paper is to compare three alternative formal reconstructions of van Inwagen's famous argument for incompatibilism. In the first part of my paper, I examine van Inwagen's own reconstruction within a propositional modal logic.
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Dennett and Taylor’s alleged refutation of the Consequence Argument [PDF]
Analysis, 2020 Abstract Daniel C. Dennett has long maintained that the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism is confused. In a joint work with Christopher Taylor, he claims to have shown that the argument is based on a failure to understand Logic 101.
Johan E Gustafsson
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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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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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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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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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