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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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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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Agency Under Prediction: A Review of The Human Test

Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2026.
This review examines Ron Folman's book, “The Human Test”, which proposes auditing human agency via measurable predictability scores enabled by AI and large‐scale behavioral data. It highlights the book's practical and ethical implications, while arguing that predictability must be reported with explicit data/compute budgets, out‐of‐distribution tests ...
Eliahu Cohen
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Elements of a Theory of Nonphysical Agents in the Physical World

Organon F, 2019
This paper shows that there is a quantum-physical and evolution-biological perspective for (libertarian) free will, and that the so-called scientific arguments against it are in reality metaphysical arguments and insufficient. The paper also develops the
Uwe Meixner
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The Reality of Contingency: Implications for Crisis Management

Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT We live in a time of overwhelming uncertainty. Whether it is the consequences of the 2025 global trade war, the war in Ukraine, the outbreak of new pandemics, the validity of knowledge, or the possible extinction of humans as a species, the power of contingency has never been so profound.
Simon Hollis, Magnus Ekengren
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Woluntaryzm w ujeciu Gottfrieda Wilhelma Leibniza i Samuela Clarke'a

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2011
The article concerns the metaphysical problem of divine will as it is discussed in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence. Its essence can be expressed in the following question: in which way the determinism developed by Leibniz goes along with his doctrine ...
Daniel Bubula
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On Hartshorne’s Objections to Determinism and Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2014
The problem of determinism and human freedom, which is one of the great debates in philosophy, has been discussed many times by philosophers who have very distinctive perspectives and thereby different results related to the problem.
Gundogdu, Hakan
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Finitude and the Good Will

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 927-941, September 2025.
Abstract According to Kant, both finite (human) and non‐finite (divine) wills are subject to the moral law, though the manner of their subjection differs. The fact that the law expresses an ‘ought’ for the human will is a function of our imperfection.
Alex Englander
wiley   +1 more source

Must indeterminate rational actions be random? [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
One powerful objection to libertarian accounts of free will is that, if actions involve any element of indeterminism, those actions are random. Such actions are thought to be random because the only factors that can aid in explanation are reasons, and ...
Anton Audrey L.
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The future's not ours to see

, 2016
An account of determinism and indeterminism in physics, addressed to non-physicist readers, leading up to proposals for how to understand statements about the future and single-event probability, motivated by quantum ...
Sudbery, Anthony
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