Free Will, Determinism, and Epiphenomenalism [PDF]
This paper articulates a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian kind of free will—a kind of free will that's incompatible with both determinism and epiphenomenalism—and responds to scientific arguments against the existence of this sort of freedom.
Mark Balaguer
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Free will beliefs are better predicted by dualism than determinism beliefs across different cultures. [PDF]
Most people believe in free will. Whether this belief is warranted or not, free will beliefs (FWB) are foundational for many legal systems and reducing FWB has effects on behavior from the motor to the social level.
David Wisniewski +2 more
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Assessing the measurement invariance of Free Will and Determinism Plus scale across four languages: a registered report [PDF]
Free will is assumed to be the core of an individual’s self-concept. Belief in free will has been studied extensively and was found to be correlated with many behavioural and psychological outcomes.
Siqi Duan +6 more
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Jalaluddin Rumi Out of the Game of Determinism and Free Will [PDF]
The Masnavi has been read as if Rumi believed either in determination or free will, or he hesitated between the two. Here we reveal a new interpretation that how he avoids both of these. His position is out of this game entirely.
Hamid Eskandari, Hassan Rahbar
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Critique of Al-Ghazâlî's View on the Relationship between Determinism and The Free Will [PDF]
The relationship between the free will and the philosophical rule of "causal determinism" is one of the issues that have been the subject of controversy among Islamic thinkers, theologians, and philosophers.
Keygobad Daneshian Kenanlu +2 more
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Cultural pressure and biased responding in free will attitudes [PDF]
Whether you believe free will exists has profound effects on your behaviour, across different levels of processing, from simple motor action to social cognition.
Emiel Cracco +4 more
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The extent of “Determinism” and “Free Will” concepts in Pahlavi texts and their relations with human’s role in history Mazdayasna thoughts [PDF]
Mazdayana’s thought, like other religious and philosophical schools, has considered a very special place for the topics of “Determinism” and “Free Will”.
Esmaeil Sangari +2 more
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Daniel Dennett’s and Sam Harris’ Confrontation on the Problem of Free Will [PDF]
This paper seeks to explain and evaluate, by an analytic method, the conflict between determinism and free will from the viewpoint of two physicalist reductionist philosophers, namely, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. Dennett is a compatibilist philosopher
zahra khazaei +2 more
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Bergson argues that there is an incompatibility between free will and determinism: while free will has a dimension of creation, of invention, determinism corresponds to the idea that the future is fixed in advance by laws.
Joel Dolbeault
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Determinism and Moral Responsibility According to Avicenna's Theory of Action [PDF]
The main issue of this article is how to harmonize determinism and moral responsibility (the classic problem of free will) by reconsidering the philosophy of Avicenna.
Roozbeh Zare +1 more
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