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On ‘the Central Argument’ of ‘Freedom and Resentment’: Hieronymi, Russell, and Strawson

Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 1, February 2026.
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, Keith Allen, Paul E. Engelhardt   +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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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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Love imperiled

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
In this paper, we argue that hard incompatibilism imperils a typical component of loving relations —lovable behavior—if it imperils moral praiseworthiness.
Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers
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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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Reflections on Sam Harris' "Free Will"

Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017
In his book Free Will Sam Harris tries to persuade us to abandon the morally pernicious idea of free will. The following contribution articulates and defends a more sophisticated model of free will that is not only consistent with neuroscience and ...
Daniel C. Dennett
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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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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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The Problems of Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Buddhist Ethics

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
At the end of the 20th century, a discipline of Buddhist ethics was formed in English-speaking countries, within the framework of which a community of closely interacting researchers is engaged in the comprehension and systematization of ethical ...
Vlada A. Volkova
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