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The Ontology of Intentional Agency in Light of Neurobiological Determinism: Philosophy Meets Folk Psychology [PDF]
, 2017 The moot point of the Western philosophical rhetoric about free will consists in examining whether the claim of authorship to intentional, deliberative actions fits into or is undermined by a one-way causal framework of determinism.
A Mele +27 more
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The Truth in Compatibilism and the truth of Libertarianism [PDF]
, 2009 The paper offers the outlines of a response to the often-made suggestion is that it is impossible to see how indeterminism could possibly provide us with anything that we might want in the way of freedom, anything that could really amount to control, as ...
Ekstrom L. +6 more
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Traditional Compatibilism Reformulated and Defended [PDF]
, 2017 Traditional compatibilism about free will is widely considered to be untenable. In particular, the conditional analysis of the ability to do otherwise appears to be subject to clear counterexamples.
Schlosser, Markus E.
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, 2017 The immediate aim of this paper is to articulate the essential features of an alternative compatibilist position, one that is responsive to sources of resistance to the compatibilist program based on considerations of fate and luck.
Russell, Paul
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What Do Buddhists Think about Free Will? [PDF]
, 2017 A critical overview to the bulk of extant Buddhist theories of free ...
Repetti, Rick
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On ‘the Central Argument’ of ‘Freedom and Resentment’: Hieronymi, Russell, and Strawson
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT P. F. Strawson's 1962 essay ‘Freedom and Resentment’ has been enormously influential for the contemporary responsibility discussion. It nevertheless remains contested how the essay is to be understood, and what the central argument is, if there even is any such.
Anton Emilsson
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Scientific or naïve? Perceptions of direct and indirect realism, and why they matter
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 1, Page 102-129, January 2026.Abstract Philosophical debates about the nature of perception are standardly informed by an empirical assumption about folk beliefs: They assume there is such a thing as “the” common‐sense conception of vision, and that this conception is captured by Direct Realism.
Eugen Fischer +2 more
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The bayesian and the abductivist
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 921-937, December 2025.Abstract A major open question in the borderlands between epistemology and philosophy of science concerns whether Bayesian updating and abductive inference are compatible. Some philosophers—most influentially Bas van Fraassen—have argued that they are not.
Mattias Skipper, Olav Benjamin Vassend
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Counterfactuals, counteractuals, and free choice [PDF]
, 2021 In a recent paper, Pruss proves the validity of the rule beta-2 relative to Lewis’s semantics for counterfactuals, which is a significant step forward in the debate about the consequence argument.
Lampert, Fabio, Merlussi, Pedro
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Two intuitions about free will—Some afterthoughts
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract In 2014, Christian List and I published a paper that delineated our view regarding what it takes for an agent to act freely. We suggested that this requires the action to be endorsed by the agent and caused by this endorsement and yet not be necessitated.
Wlodek Rabinowicz
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