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In the Beatific Vision, both Freedom and Necessity

TheoLogica, 2018
According to Aquinas, the souls in heaven (hereafter, the blessed) are both necessitated (i.e., determined) and free in their choice to love God. But if Aquinas is right, it may seem that we cannot give an incompatibilist account of the freedom of the ...
Justin Noia
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Intertemporal Bargaining in Addiction

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013
The debate between disease models of addiction and moral or voluntarist models has been endless, and often echoes the equally endless debate between determinism and free will.
George eAinslie, George eAinslie
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Quantum Indeterminacy, Freedom, and Responsibility [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2008
In the contemporary debate between determinism and indeterminism, quantum mechanics are used by libertarianists, both as a resource to escape the determinism imposed by classical physics, and as a tool to search for a ground to the possibility of free ...
Carlos Patarroyo
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Your Brain as the Source of Free Will Worth Wanting: Understanding Free Will in the Age of Neuroscience [PDF]

Philosophical debates about free will have focused on determinism—a potential ‘threat from behind’ because determinism entails that there are conditions in the distant past that, in accord with the laws of nature, are sufficient for all of our decisions.
Nahmias, Eddy
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A revision on the doctrine of disability of mind [PDF]

, 1995
Does a person have the capacity to initiate his or her thinking process, of "getting into" some state of mind on his or her own accord? This is indeed the ancient philosophical question of whether at a most fundarnentallevel one is a free agent.
Machan, T.R. (Tibor R.)
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Free Will, Self‐Creation, and the Paradox of Moral Luck [PDF]

, 2019
How is the problem of free will related to the problem of moral luck? In this essay, I answer that question and outline a new solution to the paradox of moral luck, the source-paradox solution.
Mickelson, Kristin M.
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Paradoxes of Human Nature [PDF]

, 2007
Our psychobiological nature is characterized paradoxically by our limitedly having and not having free will — our having this will and being subject to causes understood scientifically.
Trundle, Robert C.
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Changing Our Minds: Democritus on What is Up to Us [PDF]

, 2014
I develop a positive interpretation of Democritus' theory of agency and responsibility, building on previous studies that have already gone far in demonstrating his innovativeness and importance to the history and philosophy of these concepts.
Johnson, Monte
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Sobre nudos y arañas: ¿Cuánta determinación, y de qué tipo, podría llegar a aceptar un compatibilista respecto a la libertad? [PDF]

El trabajo explora diferentes posibilidades a la hora de mantener una posición compatibilista de la libertad, en un sentido fuerte, con el determinismo. La noción de determinismo es analizada con especial detalle. Se defiende una concepción general de la
Liz, Manuel
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Jamesian Free Will, The Two-stage Model Of William James [PDF]

, 2010
Research into two-stage models of “free will” – first “free” random generation of alternative possibilities, followed by “willed” adequately determined decisions consistent with character, values, and desires – suggests that William James was in 1884 the
Doyle, Bob
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