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Evolving Persons and Free Will [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Human beings are masters of deception if they want to appear superior to others and to suggest that they have everything under control (see, e.g., Fingarette 2000, Mele 2000).
Vaas, Rüdiger
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Hard-Incompatibilist Existentialism: Neuroscience, Punishment, and Meaning in Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism continue to gain traction, we are likely to see a fundamental shift in the way people think about free will and moral responsibility. Such shifts raise important practical and existential
Caruso, Gregg D., Pereboom, Derk
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Free will, temptation, and self-control: We must believe in free will, we have no choice (Isaac B. Singer). [PDF]

open access: yes
Baumeister, Sparks, Stillman, and Vohs (2007) sketch a theory of free will as the humanability to exert self-control. Self-control can produce goal-directed behavior, which free will conceptualized as random behavior cannot.
Bruyneel, Sabrina   +2 more
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Responsibility, Determinism and Freedom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra ...
Sie, M.M.S.K. (Maureen)
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Why compatibilist intuitions are not mistaken: a reply to Feltz and Millan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the past decade, a number of empirical researchers have suggested that laypeople have compatibilist intuitions. In a recent paper, Feltz and Millan (2015) have challenged this conclusion by claiming that most laypeople are only compatibilists in ...
Björnsson G.   +7 more
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Education, Learning and Freedom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper takes as its starting point Kant’s analysis of freedom in the Critique of Pure Reason. From this analysis, two different types of freedom are discerned, formative and instrumental freedom.
Hinchliffe, Geoffrey
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Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Dependence: A Dialectical Intervention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Recently, several authors have utilized the notion of dependence to respond to the traditional argument for the incompatibility of freedom and divine foreknowledge.
Cyr, Taylor W., Law, Andrew
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The Weakness of Will: The Role of Free Will in Treatment Adherence. [PDF]

open access: yesPatient Prefer Adherence, 2022
Amdie FZ, Sawhney M, Woo K.
europepmc   +1 more source

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