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In the Beatific Vision, both Freedom and Necessity
According to Aquinas, the souls in heaven (hereafter, the blessed) are both necessitated (i.e., determined) and free in their choice to love God. But if Aquinas is right, it may seem that we cannot give an incompatibilist account of the freedom of the ...
Justin Noia
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Freedom or control of how we act is often and very naturally understood as a kind of power—a power to determine for ourselves how we act. Is freedom conceived as such a power possible, and what kind of power must it be?
Thomas Pink
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Explaining and Evaluating Types of Liberal Incompatibilism in Solving the Conflict between Human Free Will and the Determined World [PDF]
Liberal incompatibilism considers the causal determinism governing all events of the world (including free actions) as a serious obstacle to human freedom.Thus, they seek a way of protecting human freedom with one of these three different approaches: 1 ...
Zeynab Abolghasemi Dehaghani +1 more
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A new solution to the problem of luck
Abstract The issue of whether and how we have the control necessary for freedom and moral responsibility is central to all control accounts of freedom and moral responsibility. The problem of luck for libertarians aims to show that indeterministic agents are ill‐equipped with the control required for freedom and moral responsibility.
Ann Whittle
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Causal counterfactuals without miracles or backtracking
Abstract If the laws are deterministic, then standard theories of counterfactuals are forced to reject at least one of the following conditionals: 1) had you chosen differently, there would not have been a violation of the laws of nature; and 2) had you chosen differently, the initial conditions of the universe would not have been different.
J. Dmitri Gallow
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From modal fallacies to a new argument for fatalism
Do incompatibilist arguments, like some fatalist arguments, rest on modal fallacies? If Westphal (2012) is right, then one popular argument for incompatibilism van Inwagen’s “First Formal Argument” does rest on a modal fallacy. Similarly, Warfield (2000)
PEDRO MERLUSSI
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The Replication Argument for Incompatibilism [PDF]
In this paper, I articulate an argument for incompatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism. My argument comes in the form of an extended story, modeled loosely on Peter van Inwagen’s “rollback argument” scenario. I thus call it “the replication argument.” As I aim to bring out, though the argument is inspired by so-called “manipulation” and
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In this paper free volitions are construed as a subclass of reflective judgements in the Kantian meaning, i.e. judgements not involving any fixed concepts but displaying a concept-like form.
Marcin Poręba
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From Inconsistency to Consistency of Theism and Darwinian Evolution: A Critical Approach to Four Perspectives [PDF]
In this paper, we present four philosophical approaches and their prominent advocates toward the problem of relationship between Darwinian evolution and theistic beliefs: (1) Atheistic Inconsistency: there is a deep conflict between Darwinian evolution ...
Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
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Özgür İrade Olmaksızın Kötülükler, Tanrı ve Yaşamın Anlamı: Katı Teolojik Belirlenimcilik
Derk Pereboom, günümüz özgür irade tartışmalarının önde gelen isimlerinden biridir. Savunmuş olduğu katı bağdaşmazcılık (hard incompatibilism) görüşünün, onun ismiyle birlikte anıldığı söylenebilir.
Aykut Alper Yılmaz
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