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The fate of presentism in modern physics [PDF]
, 2011 There has been a recent spate of essays defending presentism, the view in the metaphysics of time according to which all and only present events or entities exist.
Wuthrich, Christian
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Incommensurable Goods, Alternative Possibilities, and the Self-Refutation of the Self-Refutation of Determinism [PDF]
, 2005 In his paper, "Free Choice, Incommensurable Goods and the Self-Refutation of Determinism,"' Joseph Boyle seeks to show how the argument for the self-refutation of determinism - first articulated over twenty-five years ago - is an argument whose force ...
Baur, Michael
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Neurosociology and Penal Neuroabolitionism: Rethinking Justice With Neuroscience. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2022 Borbón D.
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Where have all the Monads Gone? Substance and Transcedental Freedom in Schleiermacher [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores the later Schleiermacher’s metaphysics of substance and what it entails concerning the question of transcendental freedom. I show that in espousing a metaphysics of substance, Schleiermacher also abandoned an understanding of nature
Mariña, Jacqueline
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Scratching the structure of moral agency: insights from philosophy applied to neuroscience. [PDF]
Front Neurosci, 2023 Castro-Toledo FJ +2 more
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Possibilites for divine freedom [PDF]
, 2016 I examine three accounts of divine freedom. I argue that two recent accounts which attempt to explain God’s freedom without appealing to alternative possibilities fail.
Kittle, Simon
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Able to Do the Impossible [PDF]
, 2018 According to a widely held principle—the poss-ability principle—an agent, S, is able to Φ only if it is metaphysically possible for S to Φ. I argue against the poss-abilityprinciple by developing a novel class of counterexamples.
Spencer II, John Haven
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Free will, temptation, and self-control: We must believe in free will, we have no choice (Isaac B. Singer). [PDF]
Baumeister, Sparks, Stillman, and Vohs (2007) sketch a theory of free will as the humanability to exert self-control. Self-control can produce goal-directed behavior, which free will conceptualized as random behavior cannot.
Bruyneel, Sabrina +2 more
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, 2012 This paper argues that free will is a purely theological issue, and offers an error theory for the free will debates in analytic philosophy in terms of evolutionary naturalism. I introduce 'protean free will' (PFW) as the ability to play mixed strategies
Clegg, Liam F.
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Responsibility, Determinism and Freedom [PDF]
, 2005 This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra ...
Sie, M.M.S.K. (Maureen)
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