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Manuscrito, 2019 In this review, I discuss some aspects of van Inwagen’s insights with respect to the notions of free will and determinism. My main focus is on the author’s formulation of the free will problem.
PEDRO MERLUSSI
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Libero arbitrio e neuroscienze. Alcuni spunti di riflessione [PDF]
, 2014 This paper treats some of the implications rising from neuroscience outcomes on the philosophical debate about free will. From a physicalist point of view (§1), I will first define the concepts of free will and determinism (§2) and then explain why the ...
Ruoso, Mattia
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Reactive Attitudes: A New Solution for the Problem of Free Will [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2013 Throughout the history of thought, free will and determinism have sparked offheated and controversial philosophical debates. Changed in form due to time lapse and mankind’s developments, the long-helddebate still addresses the same questions.
fakhr al sadat alavi, muhammad ali ezhei
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Un tentativo di salvare il libero arbitrio. Il pragmatismo kantiano di Jürgen Habermas
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2014 An Attempt to Preserve Free Will: Jürgen Habermas' Kantian Pragmatism - According to Jürgen Habermas, the debate between freedom and determinism arises from the mistaken notion that consciousness is a stable and distinct entity that can be identified in ...
Salvatore Italia
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Descartes and the Possibility of Enlightened Freedom [PDF]
, 2017 This paper offers a novel interpretation of Descartes's conception of freedom that resolves an important tension at the heart of his view. It does so by appealing to the important but overlooked distinction between possessing a power, exercising a power,
Fogal, Daniel
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A Pragmatic and Empirical Approach to Free Will
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 The long dispute between incompatibilists (namely, the advocates of the contemporary version of the illusory nature of freedom) and compatibilists is further exemplified in the discussion between Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett.
Andrea Lavazza
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ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN FREEDOM
Zygon, 1987 . The age–old dilemma of free will and determinism is attacked by proving that both sides are flawed with contingencies, that the notion of eternal law is a theologically tainted projection rather than a reality of the real world that is understood to ...
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John Martin Fisher’s Viewpoint Regarding the Necessary Free Will in Moral Responsibility [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2014 Free will, as the most pivotal human feature, on the one hand, has been considered, in the West, as the most fundamental condition of moral responsibility, and, on the other, based on the world being deterministic, has opposed determinism.
zahra khazaei, fatemeh tamadon
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, 2010 Determinism seems incompatible with free will. However, even indeterminism seems incompatible with free will, since it seems to make free actions random. Popper contends that free agents are not bound by physical laws, even indeterministic ones, and that
D. Frederick
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Free will and (in)determinism in the brain: a case for naturalized philosophy [PDF]
In this article we study the question of free will from an interdisciplinary angle, drawing on philosophy, neurobiology and physics. We start by reviewing relevant neurobiological findings on the functioning of the brain, notably as presented in (Koch ...
Blusiewicz, Tomasz, Vervoort, Louis
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