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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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Incompatibilism and the avoidability of blame [PDF]

Ethics, 1998
Examinant les conditions d'attribution de la responsabilite d'une action mauvaise, ainsi que le principe des possibilites alternatives qui fonde l'argument de l'incompatibilite entre le determinisme et la faute, l'A. oppose le principe de l'evitabilite de la faute a la critique de l'incompatibilisme developpee par H. Frankfurt.
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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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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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Response to Dennett on Free Will Skepticism

Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017
What is at stake in the debate between those, such as Sam Harris and me, who contend that we would lack free will on the supposition that we are causally determined agents, and those that defend the claim that we might then retain free will, such as ...
Derk Pereboom
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Indirect compatibilism

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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Discordant belief and principle of necessity [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2015
The transfer of necessity principle (the consequence of anecessary issue which itself is also necessary) is seen as the base of consequent argument vindicating the belief of incompatibility of free will with causal determinism.
Zeynab Abolghasemi Dehaghani, Mohammad Saeedimehr   +1 more
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Locating Rights in the Afro-Communitarian Scheme: Testing the Compatibilist Argument

Arụmarụka, 2022
In this paper, I explore the relationship between individual rights and duties within the Afro-communitarian discourse in African political philosophy. The notion of individual rights is prominent in modern African political philosophy, which is usually ...
Tosin Adeate
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Molinism, Question-Begging, and Foreknowledge of Indeterminates

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018
John Martin Fischer’s charge that Molinism does not offer a unique answer to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be seen as a criticism of middle knowledge for begging the question of FF (foreknowledge and freedom)-compatibilism. In
Laing John D.
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