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Manipulation Cases in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Part 1: Cases and Arguments. [PDF]
ABSTRACT A common style of argument in the literature on free will and moral responsibility is the Manipulation Argument. These tend to begin with a case of an agent in a deterministic universe who is manipulated, say, via brain surgery, into performing some action. Intuitively, this agent is not responsible for that action.
De Marco G, Cyr TW.
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Presentism, Actualism, and Fatalism
In recent papers, Philip Swenson (2016) has argued that presentism is incompatible with the conjunction of libertarianism and divine foreknowledge, and Michael Rea (2006) has argued that presentism is incompatible with the conjunction of libertarianism ...
Bradley Rettler
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The Role of Various Readings of Free Will in the Use of Punishment Theories (Focused on Mulla Sadra's View) [PDF]
Free will is one of the philosophical topics that have important and significant function in the humanities. Various readings of free will have been provided; each of these readings has functions in the humanities that are completely different from other
Mohammad Hosseinzadeh
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Partial Compatibilism: Free Will in the Light of Moral Experience [PDF]
Partial compatibilism says that there are basically two kinds of freedom of the will: some free volitions cannot be determined, while others can. My methodological choice is to examine what as- sumptions will appear necessary if we want to take seriously—
David Peroutka
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The problem of liberty: The importance of theorizing about classical liberal philosophy in the compatibilism concept formation [PDF]
Introduction. Modern discussions about free will are reduced to the confrontation between compatibilism and incompatibilism. The desire of the former to connect the free will of the individual with physical conditioning actualizes the problem of ...
Petr P. Lang
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Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion
Abstract Anti‐dualistic social ontologies, those highlighting the intrinsic interdependency of agency and structure as two sides of the same coin, are sometimes criticized for failing to provide a satisfactory account of autonomous – capable and free – agency, or even denying the reality of such agency.
Tero Piiroinen
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In this article, the authors give an answer to the question of whether God would be worthy of worship had He created (or even permitted) a world where no human action was freely done.
Davor Pećnjak, Tvrtko Jolić
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Sadra's monistic view; another explanation of the compatibility of God's action and nature [PDF]
IntroductionContemporary models of "specific divine actions", mostly and regardless of differences, have shaken with three metaphysical commitments, namely "The incompatibility of the divine act and the act of nature", "God's non-intervention" and also "
Nafiseh Nojaba, Mahdi Qiasvand
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Incompatibilism and the garden of forking paths
Abstract Let (leeway) incompatibilism be the thesis that causal determinism is incompatible with the freedom to do otherwise. Several prominent authors have claimed that incompatibilism alone can capture, or at least best captures, the intuitive appeal behind Jorge Luis Borges's famous “Garden of Forking Paths” metaphor.
Andrew Law
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