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The Parallel Manipulation Argument [PDF]
, 2016 Matt King has recently argued that the manipulation argument against compatibilism does not succeed by employing a dilemma: either the argument infelicitously relies on incompatibilist sourcehood conditions, or the proponent of the argument leaves a ...
Cyr, Taylor W.
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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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Relativity of a Free Will Concept Depending on Both Conscious Indeterminism and Unconscious Determinism [PDF]
, 2011 Free will is difficult to classify with respect to determinism or indeterminism, and its phenomenology in consciousness often shows both aspects. Initially, it is felt as unlimited and indeterminate will power, with the potentiality of multiple choices ...
Jansen, Franz Klaus
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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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Does Hard Incompatibilism Really Abolish ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’? Some Thoughts in Response to Larry Alexander [PDF]
, 2017 In a challenge to recent writings of Derk Pereboom and Gregg Caruso,3 Larry Alexander makes the following claim: If one accepts the Pereboom-Caruso “hard incompatibilist” view of choice, which regards blame and retributive punishment as morally ...
Humbach, John A., Mr.
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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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A Critique of Alfred R Mele’s Work on Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy [PDF]
, 2018 The book, Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy (1995), by Alfred R. Mele, deals primarily with two main concepts, “self-control” and “individual autonomy,” and the relationship between them.
Das, Pujarini
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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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Anscombe and Intentional Agency Incompatibilism (for human and animal agents) [PDF]
, 2022 Erasmus Mayr
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