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Taking Free Will Skepticism Seriously [PDF]
An apparently increasing number of philosophers take free will skepticism to pose a serious challenge to some of our practices. This must seem odd to many—why should anyone think that free will skepticism is relevant for our practices, when nobody seems ...
Vilhauer, Benjamin
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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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Comment on "The Free Will Theorem" [PDF]
In a recent paper [quant-ph/0604079], Conway and Kochen claim to have established that theories of the GRW type, i.e., of spontaneous wave function collapse, cannot be made relativistic. On the other hand, relativistic GRW-type theories have already been
Tumulka, Roderich
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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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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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Free Will in a Quantum World? [PDF]
In this paper, I argue that Conway and Kochen’s Free Will Theorem (1,2) to the conclusion that quantum mechanics and relativity entail freedom for the particles, does not change the situation in favor of a libertarian position as they would like. In fact,
A Bassi+41 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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Free will and conformity: less faith in free will corresponds to greater tendency to conformism [PDF]
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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Relating free will beliefs and attitudes
Most people believe in free will, which is foundational for our sense of agency and responsibility. Past research demonstrated that such beliefs are dynamic, and can be manipulated experimentally.
David Wisniewski+3 more
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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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