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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 PhilosophyAt 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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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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Easy Ontology without Deflationary Metaontology [PDF]
, 2019 This is a contribution to a symposium on Amie Thomasson’s Ontology Made Easy (2015). Thomasson defends two deflationary theses: that philosophical questions about the existence of numbers, tables, properties, and other disputed entities can all easily be
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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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Al-Kindi and Mu'tazila: Divine Attributes, Creation and Freedom [PDF]
, 2003 The paper discusses al-Kindi's response to doctrines held by contemporary theologians of the Mu‘tazilite school: divine attributes, creation, and freedom.
Adamson, Peter
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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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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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