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FREE WILL AND ULTIMATE EXPLANATION


Sam Harris vs. Dan Dennett on free will - Why Evolution Is True

Compatibilist “free will” is a term applied to deterministic entities displaying goal-oriented choice-selecting behaviour. Cats, aircraft ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Free Will

3.2 Free Will as Ultimate Origination (Ability to do Otherwise) ... Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency.

Sam Harris Has Nothing Useful to Say About Free Will (UNLOCKED)

Even there, Harris thinks, there's no free will, since if you honestly reflect on your experiences you'll realize that you don't even know why ...

What Should We Tell People About Free Will? - Naturalism.org

The free will at issue is the compatibilist free will of being in robust proximate (not ultimate or contra-causal) control of one's actions. In USA Today ...

A Major Flaw in the Compatibilist Understanding of Freedom

The Two Camps · Sovereignty: God causes everything that happens, including human choices: theistic determinism. · Free will: some deny free will outright while ...

Full article: Free will, determinism, and the right levels of description

A classical compatibilist account of free will says, roughly, that physical determinism and free will are situated on different levels and that ...

Four Views on Free Will

The best explanation for the intuition that Plum is not morally responsible in the first three cases is that he lacks the control required for moral respon ...

Does Free Will Exist? - Desiring God

He says that free will is “the ability for our hearts to do and believe what we most desire.” That's a pretty shrewd and careful definition.

How Can Determinists Believe in Free Will? | The New Yorker

Science tells us that everything is indeed determined. Ergo, no freedom; ergo, no responsibility. Are we bound to agree? Much of “Determined,” ...

Five Arguments for Free Will | Psychology Today

Necessity and chance are everywhere; they are exhaustive in our efforts to explain phenomena. The doctrine of free will denies this. It claims a ...

Free will and responsiblity: indeterminism and its problems

Kane's traditional definition of free will goes hand in hand with traditional notions of moral responsibility – we hold whoever is the ultimate cause of the ...

The implications of fate and free will - The Oracle

If no one has free will, moral responsibility does not exist. If there is no moral responsibility, blame should not exist. If there are no ...

Free Will, Determinism and the “Problem” of Structure and Agency in ...

... free will, and to the explanation of social action. ... It has not been my aim to adjudicate which is, in fact, the best explanation.

Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not - Nautilus

It's either a freely chosen action or the inevitable result of the laws of nature, depending on who you ask. Do we have free will? The question ...

Explaining Volition in the Ta'aliqat: Avicenna's View of Free Will

Accordingly, Avicenna's contribution to the dialogue concerning free will deserves special attention. The ultimate purpose of this analysis is to enter into the ...

Science Hasn't Refuted Free Will - Boston Review

A growing chorus says that science has shown free will to be an illusion. But it actually has offered arguments in its favor.

Free Will - Bibliography - PhilPapers

A major focus of the debate is the compatibility of free will with causal determinism. A minority of philosophers deny that we have free will because free will ...

Nietzsche's Attack on Free Will - K. J. L. Kjeldsen - Medium

The desire for “freedom of the will” in the superlative metaphysical sense… the desire to bear the entire and ultimate responsibility for one's ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF FREE WILL - Rochester Institute of Technology

... explanation of our actions and behavior to rest on the ... as a cause for concern and fear what if “denying free will simply provides the ultimate.

Dialogue — March 2024 - STANFORD magazine

While I will not rule out some ultimate explanation of all behavior, I personally think the mystery of free will makes consciousness terrific to experience and ...