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Belgrade Philosophical AnnualIn this paper, I appeal to a quantified counterfactual logic in order to argue that van Inwagen's new version of the Consequence Argument, unlike the original version of his argument, is logically valid.
Hausmann Marco
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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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Sadraies on Divine Free-Will: a Critical Survey [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2014 Are ‘Divine freedom’ and ‘necessity of His will and action’ compatible? There are two different answers to this theological question: compatibilism, which confirms the compatibility of these doctrines, and incompatibilism, which claims that those beliefs
Saeed Moghadas, ahmad behashti
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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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Bernard Williams's Different View of Moral Responsibility [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 The present article studies Bernard Williams's view on moral responsibility using an analytical-critical approach. The discussion of moral responsibility includes the definition, conditions, and problem of moral responsibility.
Fatemeh TamaddonFard
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Compatibilist's Challenges on Encountering with the Zygote Argument of Manipulation [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsIn compatibilists believe that we cannot act freely and be morally responsible for an action in a deterministic world, while compatibilists don’t deny the possibility of free action and moral responsibility for the agent, and they believe that we can ...
Zahra Khazaei +2 more
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Can Soft‐Line Compatibilism Handle Eternally Recurrent Manipulation?
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT A key challenge to compatibilism comes from manipulation arguments. These argue that agents whose actions are manipulated are not morally responsible and that manipulation is not relevantly different from determinism. One common response from compatibilists is to claim that there is a relevant difference between manipulation and ordinary ...
James Andow
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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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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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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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