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Dennett and Taylor’s alleged refutation of the Consequence Argument

open access: yesAnalysis, 2020
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.
J. Gustafsson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Molinism and the Consequence Argument

open access: yesFaith and Philosophy, 2003
Kenneth J. Perszyk
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An Absurd Consequence of Stanford’s New Induction Over the History of Science: A Reply to Sterpetti [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, I respond to Sterpetti’s attempt to defend Kyle P. Stanford’s Problem of Unconceived Alternatives and his New Induction over the History of Science from my reductio argument outlined in Mizrahi :59–68, 2016a).
Mizrahi, Moti
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Constitutive and depictive creativities in philosophy and critical thinking

open access: yesCreativity Studies, 2018
This paper expounds two types of creativities in philosophy while exploring several influential philosophical views and thought experiments. The two types of creativities include constitutive creativity and depictive creativity.
Huiyuhl Yi
doaj   +1 more source

Rene Girard and the phenomenology of mimetic desire [PDF]

open access: yesStudia z Teorii Wychowania, 2023
René Girard has been critiqued for failing to ground his theory of mimetic desire in a discursive and philosophically robust framework. In order to meet this objection, I argue that René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire can be successfully motivated by ...
Gregory Moss
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XII—What’s Wrong with the Consequence Argument: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response

open access: yesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2019
The most prominent argument for the incompatibility of free will and determinism is Peter van Inwagen’s consequence argument. I offer a new diagnosis of what is wrong with this argument.
C. List
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On Gauge Invariance of the Bosonic Measure in Chiral Gauge Theories

open access: yesUniverse, 2021
Gauge invariance of the measure associated with the gauge field is usually taken for granted, in a general gauge theory. We furnish a proof of this invariance, within Fujikawa’s approach.
Gabriel de Lima e Silva   +2 more
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How to make beta better [PDF]

open access: yesBelgrade Philosophical Annual
In this paper, I appeal to a quantified counterfactual logic in order to argue that van Inwagen's new version of the Consequence Argument, unlike the original version of his argument, is logically valid.
Hausmann Marco
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Adversariality and Argumentation

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2020
The concept of adversariality, like that of argument, admits of significant variation. As a consequence, I argue, the question of adversarial argument has not been well understood.
John Casey
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Can Physics Make Us Free?

open access: yesFrontiers 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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