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Man’s Free Will from the Viewpoint of Sadra and Jaspers [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2010
Man’s free will is one of the important issues dealt with by two philosophers: Sadr-ol-Mote'allehin, founder of “transcendent theosophy”, and Jaspers, an atheistic existentialist philosopher.
farah ramin
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Libertarian Free Will, Naturalism, and Science [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021
If we have libertarian free will, then it is plausible to believe that the occurrences of certain physical events have irreducible and ineliminable mental explanations.
Stewart Goetz
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Free will, determinism, and compatibilism: Blind spots in the theoretical landscape [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
Philosophical discourse on 'the' problem of free will has been shaped by three basic options: Libertarianism (accept free will and incompatibility, but deny determinism), hard determinism (accept determinism and incompatibility, but deny free will), and ...
Walter Sven
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Free Will as An Epistemically Innocent False Belief

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2023
In this paper I aim to establish that our belief in free will is epistemically innocent. Many contemporary accounts that deal with the potential “illusion” of freedom seek to describe the pragmatic benefits of belief in free will, such as how it ...
Fabio Tollon
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Free Will and Retribution Today

Ethics in Progress, 2014
The paper addresses two issues that have been recently debated in the literature on free will, moral responsibility, and the theory of punishment. The first issue concerns the descriptive project, the second both the substantive and the prescriptive ...
Mario De Caro, Massimo Marraffa
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Free will and paranormal beliefs

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Free will is one of the fundamental aspects of human cognition. In the context of cognitive neuroscience, various experiments on time perception, sensorimotor coordination, and agency suggest the possibility that it is a robust illusion (a feeling ...
Ken eMogi
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Free will and conformity: less faith in free will corresponds to greater tendency to conformism [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2019
Philosophical debates around the concept of free will have not ceased for many centuries. Modern discussions in moral philosophy are increasingly turning to new scientific discoveries of social psychology and neurobiology.
V. G. Keller
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Una giustificazione cristiana dell'astrologia. Esseri umani e corpi celesti nel Cause et cure

I Quaderni del MAES, 2023
In the Middle Ages, authoritative voices of Christianity condemn astrology as a kind of idolatry that denies free will. This is the reason why, since the 12th century, the revival of interest in astrology led some thinkers to prove its compatibility with
Giulia Guidara
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Free and almost-free subsemigroups of a free semigroup

Discrete Mathematics, 1973
AbstractA subsemigroup S of a free semigroup F(Σ) is almost-free if there is a free subsemigroupT such that S⊆T⊆F(Σ) and T/S is finite. It is shown that it is decidable whether a subsemigroup generated by a regular subset of F(Σ) is almost-free. Sufficient- conditions are given such that if a family F of subsets of F(Σ) satisfies these conditions, then
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Contingency, Free Will, and Particular Providence

Religions, 2021
The results from contemporary science, especially the theory of evolution and quantum physics, seem to favor process theology. Moreover, the evil committed by free will leads some theologians to reduce divine action in order to prevent God from being ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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