Free Will
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Free Will: A Guide for the Perplexed
By T. J. MawsonHowever, the creator benignly assures you that they have not and indeed over the next few weeks you are able to remove any cause for worry you might have on this score by experiment: try as you might, over several weeks living in this ...
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Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage
By Richard WilsonResponding to recent critical work on both political theology and literary authorship, this is a revaluation that demonstrates how the plays anticipate the representational logic of the modern public sphere even as they dramatise the ...
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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
By Thomas PinkEvery day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.
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Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction
By Michael McKenna, Derk PereboomAs an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field’s issues and debates.
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Free Will: A Defence Against Neurophysiological Determinism
By John ThorpG. Grua, Paris, 1948. Leibniz, Philosophical Writings, tr. Mary Morris, London, Dent, 1934. ... L. Borkowski, Amsterdam, North Holland Publishing Company, 1970. Luria, A. R., The Working Brain, tr. Basil Haigh, Harmonds worth, Penguin, ...
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Free Will
By Sam HarrisSam Harris, bestselling author of THE END OF FAITH takes on one of today's liveliest issues: whether or not we actually have free will.
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Free Will: Free agency, moral responsibility, and skepticism
By John Martin FischerIt is not true that a person is morally responsible for what he has done only if his will was free when he did it . He may be morally responsible for having done it even though his will was not free at all . A person's will is free only ...
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Free Will: Libertarianism, alternative possibilities, and moral responsibility
By John Martin Fischer11 I defend this point at length in Free Will and Values ( Albany : SUNY , 1985 ) , chapters 4 and 5. It is also defended by Peter van Inwagen , " When Is the Will Free ? " in J. Tomberlin , ed . . Philosophical Perspectives , Volume 3 ...
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Free Will
By Derk PereboomHow, then, is the will free when such inescapable necessity is found in it? Augustine: You have knocked powerfully on the door of God's mercy; may it be present and open the door to those who knock. Nevertheless, I think the only reason ...
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Free Will: Jonathan Edwards’ Psychological, Ethical, and Theological Philosophy in his Freedom of the Will
By Peter B. JungJonathan Edwards' Psychological, Ethical, and Theological Philosophy in his Freedom of the Will Peter B. Jung. choice be also a free act, then by these principles, in this act too, the will is self-determined; that is, this, ...
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Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction
By İlham Dilman1 Schopenhauer's arguments for determinism In his prize winning essay, published as a book, On the Freedom of the Will Schopenhauer raises the question of whether the will is free – whether we have a free will.
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Free Will: The Basics
By Meghan GriffithOne very famous, much—discussed, and central concern is referred to as the problem of free will. THE PROBLEM OF FREE WILL What is the problem of free will? This question is probably some— what misleading because there is not really just ...
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Free Will: Concepts and challenges
By John Martin FischerAbility - sentences containing adverbs or adverbial phrases are often ambiguous . Consider : I can refrain from talking at any time . Does the adverbial phrase ' at any time ' modify the verb - phrase “ refrain from talking ' or does it ...
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Free Will: Historical and Analytic Perspectives
By Jörg Noller, Marco HausmannOf Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Jorati, Julia. 2015. Three Types of Spontaneity and Teleology in Leibniz. Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (4): ...
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Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction
By Michael McKenna, Derk Pereboomconsideration, who Ginet calls the “compatibilist backtracker,” will now deny that to be able to do something is to be able to add to the given past. More precisely, the compatibilist backtracker will deny the following principle: 1.
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Free Will
By Sam HarrisIn this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most ...
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Free Will: An Introduction
By H. Beebeewhen something is put forward for our consideration by the intellect, we are moved to affirm or deny it, or pursue or avoid it' (1641, 101–2). In ordinary usage, 'the will' has come to be more narrowly associated with desires.
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Free Will
By Mark BalaguerIn this engaging and accessible volume in the Essential Knowledge series, the philosopher Mark Balaguer examines the various arguments and experiments that have been cited to support the claim that human beings don't have free will.
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Free Will
By Silvano AngeliniCHAPTER VI – ZARATUSTRA When observing the sky we happen to see a fraction of clouds arranged with artistic flair, we can be brought to compare this work with what springs from the free will of the artist, then we undeniably see a ...
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Free Will
By D J O'Connor19 and 20. Ofstad, H. An Inquiry into the Freedom of Decision (London, Oslo, New York, 1961). Pears, D. F., ed. Freedom and the Will (London, 1964; New York, 1963). Popper, K. R. Of Clouds and Clocks, The A. H. Compton Memorial Lecture, ...