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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 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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Chapter 37 Neuroscientific Threaths to Free Will [PDF]

, 2017
In this chapter, I review recent work on neuroscientifi c threats to free will. What is it for something to threaten free will? Consider, fi rst, an apparent threat. You are walking in the dark, and a shadow looms in the distance.
Shepherd, Joshua
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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 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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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 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 Agents as Cause [PDF]

, 2003
The dilemma of free will is that if actions are caused deterministically, then they are not free, and if they are not caused deterministically then they are not free either because then they happen by chance and are not up to the agent.
Petrus, K., Wachter, Daniel von
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Free will

The Philosophers' Magazine, 2009
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Objections to Optimistic Free Will Skepticism

, 2021
The free will debate is fundamentally grounded in asking whether people have the sort of control required for moral responsibility given physical facts about the universe and other causal factors involved with our actions.
Vu, Hannah
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