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Foreknowledge and causal determinism
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract I evaluate Patrick Todd's critique of the idea accepted by many, including (in contemporary philosophy) Nelson Pike and John Martin Fischer, that there can be non‐causal constraints on human actions (including basic actions). I suggest that Todd's critical reflections, although illuminating, are not persuasive.
John Martin Fischer
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Understanding Source Incompatibilism [PDF]
, 2011 Source incompatibilism is an increasingly popular version of incompatibilism about determinism and moral responsibility. However, many self-described source incompatibilists formulate the thesis differently, resulting in conceptual confusion that can ...
Tognazzini, Neal A.
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Supervenient fixity and agential possibilities
Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 400-416, August 2024.Abstract One of the central problems within the free will debate lies in the apparent incompatibility of an agent's ability to do otherwise and determinism. Recently, compatibilist libertarianism was proposed as an actualist position intended to finally reconcile both.
Maria Sekatskaya, Alexander Gebharter
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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 In this paper, we argue that hard incompatibilism imperils a typical component of loving relations —lovable behavior—if it imperils moral praiseworthiness.
Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers
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Mobile health technology and empowerment
Bioethics, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 481-490, July 2024.Abstract Mobile Health (m‐health) technologies, such as wearables, apps, and smartwatches, are increasingly viewed as tools for improving health and well‐being. In particular, such technologies are conceptualized as means for laypersons to master their own health, by becoming “engaged” and “empowered” “managers” of their bodies and minds.
Karola V. Kreitmair
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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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Moral responsibility and the irrelevance of physics: Fischer's semi-compatibilism vs anti-fundamentalism [PDF]
, 2008 [FIRST PARAGRAPH] 'My Way' is a collection of Fischer’s recent work on moral responsibility which provides an excellent overview of the position that he has (with Mark Ravizza) steadily worked over the last twenty years or so to develop, clarify and ...
Steward, H.
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The silence of self-knowledge [PDF]
, 2013 Gareth Evans famously affirmed an explanatory connection between answering the question whether p and knowing whether one believes that p. This is commonly interpreted in terms of the idea that judging that p constitutes an adequate basis for the belief ...
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Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 141-162, March 2024.Abstract In this paper I will introduce a new compatibilist account of free action: indirect conscious control compatibilism, or just indirect compatibilism for short. On this account, actions are free either when they are caused by compatibilist‐friendly conscious psychological processes, or else by sub‐personal level processes influenced in ...
Andrew J. Latham
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Free Will and Law: Toward a Pragmatic Approach [PDF]
, 2017 Despite its profound significance for notions of legal responsibility, the courts and legal system have tended to avoid direct engagement with the philosophical problem of free will.
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