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Free Will: A New Formulation [PDF]
Free will is sometimes summarised in the philosophical literature as the subjective impression felt by an individual that he or she is the ultimate source or cause of his or her own choices. The two most common arguments for denying the existence of free
Eric Sanchis
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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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Free will, causation, and Sartorio’s Causation and Free Will
No matter what side one takes in the debate about free will, one will also have to accept certain metaphysical assumptions about causation and causal laws and, consequently, posit a certain ontological framework. In Causation and Free Will, Sartorio develops a compatibilist, actual causal sequence account of free will which is grounded on certain ...
Anić, Zvonimir, Pećnjak, Davor
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Libertarian Free Will, Naturalism, and Science [PDF]
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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The focal concern of this article is to verify the consistence of Schopenhauer´s account of moral and juridical imputation, which requires the presupposition of Kant´s conception of transcedental liberty.
Oswaldo Giacoia Junior
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Nietzsche e a noção de vontade: uma iconoclastia do livre-arbítrio
This paper studies the notion of will in Nietzsche’s philosophy. In order to do so, we started this article reading the aphorisms found in the works of the German philosopher that belong to the last two phases of his production: the intermediate and the ...
Alvaro Henriques David Neto
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Man’s Free Will from the Viewpoint of Sadra and Jaspers [PDF]
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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Free Will as An Epistemically Innocent False Belief
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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Neurocognitive free will [PDF]
Free will is an apparent paradox because it requires a historical identity to escape its history in a self-guided fashion. Philosophers have itemized design features necessary for this escape, scaling from action to agency and vice versa. These can be organized into a coherent framework that neurocognitive capacities provide and that form a basis for ...
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Free Will and Retribution Today
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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