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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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Grounding Physicalism and the Metaphysical Exclusion Problem

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 71-81, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Ground physicalism is the view that higher‐level properties, such as phenomenal and normative properties, are fully grounded in the fundamental physical properties. Like other non‐identity physicalists, ground physicalists face the causal exclusion problem.
Will Moorfoot
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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Jamesian Free Will, The Two-stage Model Of William James [PDF]

, 2010
Research into two-stage models of “free will” – first “free” random generation of alternative possibilities, followed by “willed” adequately determined decisions consistent with character, values, and desires – suggests that William James was in 1884 the
Doyle, Bob
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Laws, Causation and Dynamics at Different Levels [PDF]

, 2011
I have two main aims. The first is general, and more philosophical (Section 2). The second is specific, and more closely related to physics (Sections 3 and 4).
Butterfield, Jeremy
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Similarity accounts of counterfactuals: A reality check1

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 887-915, May 2025.
Abstract To an unusual extent, philosophers agree that counterfactuals have truth conditions involving the most similar possible worlds where their antecedents are true, in the style of the celebrated and path‐breaking Stalnaker/Lewis accounts. Roughly, these accounts say that the counterfactual if A were the case, C would be the case is true if and ...
Alan Hájek
wiley   +1 more source

İRADE ÖZGÜRLÜGÜ SORUNUNUN ÇÖZÜMSÜZLÜGÜ ÜZERİNE

Felsefe Dünyası, 2008
E. Funda NESLİOGLU, "İRADE ÖZGÜRLÜGÜ SORUNUNUN ÇÖZÜMSÜZLÜGÜ ÜZERİNE"
Funda Neslioğlu
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Manipulation Cases in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Part 3: Bypassing Responses

Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper—the last of the series—I discuss the second of the two main types of soft‐line responses to manipulation cases, which I refer to as bypassing views. These views hold that a large part of the reason that Victim lacks responsibility is because the action issues from attitudes acquired in a way that bypassed Victim's capacities for ...
Gabriel De Marco
wiley   +1 more source

Tense and Indeterminateness [PDF]

Philosophy of Science, 2000
Is tense real and objective? Can the fact that something is past, say, be wholly objective, consistent with modern physics? I believe that it can. But some hold that for tense to be real, then a certain ontological doctrine must also hold. There must be a fact of the matter as to what really, truly, exists at each time.
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Two intuitions about free will—Some afterthoughts

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract In 2014, Christian List and I published a paper that delineated our view regarding what it takes for an agent to act freely. We suggested that this requires the action to be endorsed by the agent and caused by this endorsement and yet not be necessitated.
Wlodek Rabinowicz
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