Switch to: References

Add citations

You must login to add citations.
  1. What's Wrong With Undermatching?Michael Tiboris - 2014 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 48 (4):646-664.
    ‘Undermatched’ is the name education researchers have given to the surprisingly large number of students who attend post-secondary institutions which are less selective than their academic credentials would permit, or who simply fail to even apply for college when they are qualified to do so. At first, this might seem like an obviously bad trend, especially as rates of undermatching are much higher among students from low-income backgrounds. This article argues, however, that individual cases of undermatching are sometimes morally acceptable (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Concerning theories of personal identity.Patrick Bailey - unknown
    The purpose of this thesis is to provide a brief examination of the historical accounts of philosophical theories of personal identity and show the influence that each has had on the development of contemporary theories. In doing so, the thesis explores the problems associated with these theories, attempting to establish a meta-theory of personal identity. What is demonstrated is that the fundamental problems of personal identity arise from issues related to the use of language, as well as assumptions involving the (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Karma, Morality, and Evil.Mikel Burley - 2014 - Philosophy Compass 9 (6):415-430.
    The doctrine of karma has been praised as a rational and morally edifying explanatory response to the existence of evil and apparent injustice in the world. Critics have attacked it as a morally misguided dogma that distorts one's vision of reality. This essay, after outlining the traditional doctrine, examines three criticisms that have been central to recent debates: firstly, that the doctrine offers no practical guidance; second, that it faces a dilemma between free will and fatalism; and third, that it (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • A study in metaphysics for free will: using models of causality, determinism and supervenience in the search for free will.David Robson - unknown
    We have two main aims: to construct mathematical models for analysing determinism, causality and supervenience; and then to use these to demonstrate the possibility of constructing an ontic construal of the operation of free will - one requiring both the presentation of genuine alternatives to an agent and their selecting between them in a manner that permits the attribution of responsibility. Determinism is modelled using trans-temporal ontic links between discrete juxtaposed universe states and shown to be distinct from predictability. Causality (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Self-Representation & Good Determination.Michael Popejoy - 2015 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (1):113-122.
    I argue that a distinction made in recent literature in the philosophy of mind between self-organizing and self-governing systems can serve as the basis of a principled distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ determination on the part of the compatibilist with respect to freedom or control. I first consider two arguments for the claim that causal determinism undermines control: the Consequence Argument as presented by Peter van Inwagen, and the Four Case Argument of Derk Pereboom. I then elucidate the difference between (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Group Agents are Not Expressive, Pragmatic or Theoretical Fictions.Philip Pettit - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (S9):1641-1662.
    Group agents have been represented as expressive fictions by those who treat ascriptions of agency to groups as metaphorical; as pragmatic fictions by those who think that the agency ascribed to groups belongs in the first place to a distinct individual or set of individuals; and as theoretical fictions by those who think that postulating group agents serves no indispensable role in our theory of the social world. This paper identifies, criticizes and rejects each of these views, defending a strong (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   20 citations  
  • Springs of Action. [REVIEW]Ishtiyaque Haji - 1994 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3):511-524.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Autonomy in chimpanzees.Tom L. Beauchamp & Victoria Wobber - 2014 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (2):117-132.
    Literature on the mental capacities and cognitive mechanisms of the great apes has been silent about whether they can act autonomously. This paper provides a philosophical theory of autonomy supported by psychological studies of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie chimpanzee behavior to argue that chimpanzees can act autonomously even though their psychological mechanisms differ from those of humans. Chimpanzees satisfy the two basic conditions of autonomy: (1) liberty (the absence of controlling influences) and (2) agency (self-initiated intentional action), each of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   20 citations  
  • Professional Autonomy.Michael Davis - 1996 - Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (4):441-460.
    Employed professionals (e.g., accountants or engineers)-and those who study them-sometimes claim that their status as employeesdenies them the “autonomy” necessary to be “true professionals.” Is this a conceptual claim or an empirical claim? How might it be proved or disproved? This paper draws on recent work on autonomy to try to answer these questions. In the course of doing that, it identifies three literatures concerned with autonomy and suggests an approach bringing them together in a way likely to be useful (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  • Where Frankfurt and Strawson Meet.Michael McKenna - 2005 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29 (1):163-180.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   20 citations  
  • Neural holism and free will.Daniel A. Levy - 2003 - Philosophical Psychology 16 (2):205-228.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  • Autonomy, Gendered Subordination and Transcultural Dialogue.Sylvie Loriaux, Stan van Hooft, Servan Adar Asvar, Sumi Madhok, Mark F. N. Franke & Carol C. Gould - 2007 - Journal of Global Ethics 3 (3):335-357.
    This paper is a theoretical and empirical investigation into whether persons in subordinate social contexts possess agency and if they do, how do we recognise and recover their agency given the oppressive conditions of their lives. It aims to achieve this through forging closer links between the philosophical arguments and the ethnographic evidence of women's agency. Through such an exercise, this paper hopes to bridge the existing gap between feminist theoretical interventions and feminist politics as well as to increase ‘sociological (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Temptation and the Agent’s Standpoint.Michael E. Bratman - 2014 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 57 (3):293-310.
    Suppose you resolve now to resist an expected temptation later while knowing that once the temptation arrives your preference or evaluative assessment will shift in favor of that temptation. Are there defensible norms of rational planning agency that support sticking with your prior intention in the face of such a shift at the time of temptation and in the absence of relevant new information? This article defends the idea that it might be rational to stick with your prior intention in (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   16 citations  
  • The Motive of Commitment and Its Implications for Rational Choice Theory.Catherine S. Herfeld - 2009 - Analyse & Kritik 31 (2):291-317.
    This paper addresses the explanatory role of the concept of a motive for action in economics. The aim of the paper is to show the difficulty economists have to accommodate the motive of commitment into their explanatory and predictive framework, i.e. rational choice theory. One difficulty is that the economists’ explanation becomes analytic when assuming preferences of commitment. Another difficulty is that it is highly doubtful whether commitment can be represented by current frameworks while (pre-)serving the ‘folk-psychological’ idea of what (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Stephen Morse on the Fundamental Psycho-Legal Error.Michael S. Moore - 2016 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 10 (1):45-89.
    Stephen Morse has long proclaimed there to be a “fundamental psycho-legal error” that is regularly made by legal and social/psychological/medical science academics alike. This is the error of thinking that causation of human choice by factors themselves outside the chooser’s control excuses that chooser from moral responsibility. In this paper, I examine Morse’s self-labelled “internalist” defense of his thesis that this is indeed an error, and finds such internalist defense incomplete; needed is the kind of externalist defense of Morse’s thesis (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  • Enhancing Autonomy by Reducing Impulsivity: The Case of ADHD.Jonathan Pugh - 2014 - Neuroethics 7 (3):373-375.
    In a recent article in this journal, Schaefer et al. argue that it might be possible to enhance autonomy through the use of cognitive enhancements. In this article, I highlight an example that Schaefer et al. do not acknowledge of a way in which we already seem to be using pharmacological agents in a manner that can be understood as enhancing an agent’s autonomy. To make this argument, I begin by following other theorists in the philosophical literature in claiming that (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   6 citations  
  • The Meaning of Freedom.Luis Eduardo Hoyos - 2009 - Ideas Y Valores 58 (141):85-107.
    In the article it is pretended to prepare the conceptual field for the correct use of the attribution of freedom. It is defended the importance to consider the complementarity of freedom of action and freedom of the will and it is argued for a non-metaphysical conception of adscription of freedom. The adequate use of the attribution of freedom is social and normative. This means additionally that the freedom is not a presupposition of the moral responsibility and the authorship, but on (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Death and the Disintegration of Personality.Fred Feldman - 2013 - In Fred Feldman Ben Bradley (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death. Oxford University Press. pp. 60.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  • Divergierende Konzepte Politischen Handelns in der Politikwissenschaft.Hubertus Buchstein - 2012 - In Georg Weisseno & Hubertus Buchstein (eds.), Politisch Handeln: Modelle, Möglichkeiten, Kompetenzen. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. pp. 18--38.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Three Philosophical Approaches to Entomology.Jean-Marc Drouin - 2013 - In Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Thomas Uebel & Gregory Wheeler (eds.), New Challenges to Philosophy of Science. Springer Verlag. pp. 377--386.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • What matters to a machine.Drew McDermott - 2011 - In Michael Anderson & Susan Leigh Anderson (eds.), Machine Ethics. Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 88--114.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  • Colloquium 1.Christopher A. Dustin - 1993 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 9 (1):34-56.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Adaptation, Autonomy, and Authority.Dale Dorsey - 2013 - In Juha Räikkä & Jukka Varelius (eds.), Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 27--47.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Language, tradition, and the self in the generation of meaning.R. M. Burns - 2002 - History of European Ideas 28 (1-2):51-75.
    An analysis of Mark Bevir's account of the role of language and tradition on the one hand, and the individual on the other in the generation of ideas, and proposal of an alternative account It endorses Bevir's project of finding a middle way between individualism and collectivism, but finds that Bevir exaggerates the role of the individual. It argues that human selves always remains dependent on language even to articulate their own intentions to themselves. Whilst they have a capacity to (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Work lovers, freedom, and basic income.Lucas Swaine - 2011 - Contemporary Political Theory 10 (1):21-36.
    This article discusses left-libertarian justifications of basic income. The basic income policy is designed to decouple income from employment in the monetized economy by allowing the individual to access, on a regular stipulated basis, a grant that is independent of her ability and willingness to work for remuneration. This article attempts to amend an important failure with respect to the way in which the concept of real freedom has been treated in Van Parijs’ pioneering defense of the universal grant. Van (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Freedom as Satisfaction? A Critique of Frankfurt's Hierarchical Theory of Freedom.Christian F. Rostbøll - 2004 - SATS 5 (1):131-146.
    This article is a critical assessment of Harry Frankfurt's hierarchical theory of freedom. It spells out and distinguishes several different and irreconcilable conceptions of freedom present in Frankfurt's work. I argue that Frankfurt is ambiguous in his early formulation as to what conception of freedom of the will the hierarchical theory builds on, an avoidability or a satisfaction conception. This ambiguity causes problems in his later attempts to respond to the objections of wantonness of second-order desires and of infinite regress. (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Aesthetic Arguments in the Ethics of Nature.Martin Seel & Catherine Rigby - 1992 - Thesis Eleven 32 (1):76-89.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  • Responsibility and Luck in the Holocaust: Towards a Functionalist Compatibilism.Roderick M. Stewart - 2007 - The European Legacy 12 (7):805-821.
    This paper is an attempt to reflect on our relative proximity and remoteness to Nazi perpetrators of evil by examining what Bernard Williams has called the problem of “moral luck.” Such situational factors as genetics, class, race/ethnicity, religion, political upheavals and special nurturing relationships provide us with what John Rawls has called the “starting points” of our lives as emergent adults and moral agents. For skeptics like Williams, though, it is unclear that either “saint” or “sinner” has the requisite moral (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Positivism and Inwardness: Schopenhauer's Legacy in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.Kelly Coble - 2006 - The European Legacy 11 (2):139-153.
    Robert Musil's unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities is testimony that Arthur Schopenhauer's legacy in early-twentieth-century European culture cuts across the familiar opposition between neo-romantic irrationalism and scientific positivism. I adduce evidence in Musil's unfinished novel and contemporaneous essays and journal entries that his utopian vision of an integration of ethical inwardness and scientific objectivity, an integration productive of an existence without qualities, is symptomatic of a Schopenhauerian outlook that prevailed in Europe êntre deux guerres and yielded a crisis of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Actions, laws, and scientific psychology.John Macnamara, Vishwas P. Govitrikar & Brian Doan - 1988 - Cognition 29 (1):1-27.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  • Responsabilidade moral depois da neurociência.Lincoln Frias - 2013 - Filosofia Unisinos 14 (1).
    Moral responsibility is centered on the idea that, given some conditions, people deserve blame or credit, punishment or reward. At least according to traditional readings, moral responsibility presupposes free will, understood as the ability to choose independently of previous events. The achievements of neuroscience in recent decades make a very good case for the hypothesis that the mind is a material entity, a subset of the electrochemical activity of the brain. However, if the mind is a material entity, then it (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Modernidad E identidad en Charles Taylor.Carlos Ruiz Schneider - 2013 - Revista de filosofía (Chile) 69:227-243.
    Este ensayo es una investigación sobre las relaciones entre las concepciones de modernidad e identidad en la obra del filósofo canadiense Charles Taylor. En los escritos recientes de Taylor, el concepto de identidad es una herramienta útil para percibir claramente la concepción del yo, en el contexto de una nueva visión del espacio moral. En su búsqueda de las fuentes morales del yo, Taylor centra su análisis en la modernidad. Subraya en este período el rol de la interioridad, la preeminencia (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Autonomie als Rechtfertigungsgrund psychiatrischer Therapien [Autonomy as a justification for psychiatric treatments].Orsolya Friedrich & Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs - 2014 - Ethik in der Medizin 26 (4):317-330.
    Research with psychiatric patients raises frequently discussed, ethical questions, one of which is: Can psychiatric patients give consent to participation in research at all? To answer this and similar questions adequately, it is - according to our thesis - necessary to analyze first, which theoretical assumptions are made in established practice. -/- To solve the question after the possibility of consent, compatible understandings of ‘disease’, ‘illness’ and ‘autonomy’ are crucial, but there is no consensual use of these terms in philosophy. (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  • Ocho desiderata metodológicos de las teorías sociales normativas.Antoni Dümenech - 1998 - Isegoría 18:115-141.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  • Willusionism, epiphenomenalism, and the feeling of conscious will.Sven Walter - 2014 - Synthese 191 (10):2215-2238.
    While epiphenomenalism—i.e., the claim that the mental is a causally otiose byproduct of physical processes that does not itself cause anything—is hardly ever mentioned in philosophical discussions of free will, it has recently come to play a crucial role in the scientific attack on free will led by neuroscientists and psychologists. This paper is concerned with the connection between epiphenomenalism and the claim that free will is an illusion, in particular with the connection between epiphenomenalism and willusionism, i.e., with the (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  • Children’s Rights and the Parental Authority to Instill a Specific Value System.Jeffrey Morgan - 2006 - Essays in Philosophy 7 (1):49-66.
    Liberals who want to support multiculturalism need to be able to justify the parental authority to instill cultural value systems or worldviews into children. However, such authority may be at odds with liberal demands that citizens be autonomous. This paper argues that parents do not have the legitimate authority to instill in their children a specific value system, contrary to the complex and intriguing arguments of Robert Noggle (2002). Noggle’s argument, which draws heavily on key ideas in Rawls’ theory of (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  • Sobre nudos y arañas:¿ Cuánta determinación, y de qué tipo, podría llegar a aceptar un compatibilista respecto a la libertad?Manuel Liz - 2009 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 34 (1):139-154.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Wie frei sind wir eigentlich empirisch?Sven Walter - 2009 - Philosophia Naturalis 46 (1):8-35.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Liberal Neutrality and the Value of Autonomy.George Sher - 1995 - Social Philosophy and Policy 12 (1):136-159.
    Many liberals believe that government should not base its decisions on any particular conception of the good life. Many believe, further, that this principle of neutrality is best defended through appeal to some normative principle about autonomy. In this essay, I shall discuss the prospects of mounting one such defense. I say only “one such defense” because neutralists can invoke the demands of autonomy in two quite different ways. They can argue, first, that because autonomy itself has such great value, (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  • Individual responsibility in health law.Stefan Huster - 2010 - Ethik in der Medizin 22 (3):289-299.
    Sowohl im System der medizinischen Versorgung als auch im Rahmen der Präventions- und Gesundheitsförderungspolitik stellt sich die Frage, welche Bedeutung dem Grundsatz der Eigenverantwortung zukommt. Der Beitrag vergleicht die Diskussionen in beiden Bereichen und stellt abschließend ihren Zusammenhang dar.
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Choosing freedom: basic desert and the standpoint of blame.Evan Tiffany - 2013 - Philosophical Explorations 16 (2):195-211.
    One can think of the traditional logic of blame as involving three intuitively plausible claims: (1) blame is justified only if one is deserving of blame, (2) one is deserving of blame only if one is relevantly in control of the relevant causal antecedents, and (3) one is relevantly in control only if one has libertarian freedom. While traditional compatibilism has focused on rejecting either or both of the latter two claims, an increasingly common strategy is to deny the link (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Nursing and human freedom.Mark Risjord - 2014 - Nursing Philosophy 15 (1):35-45.
    Debates over how to conceptualize the nursing role were prominent in the nursing literature during the latter part of the twentieth century. There were, broadly, two schools of thought. Writers likeHenderson andOrem used the idea of a self‐care deficit to understand the nurse as doing for the patient what he or she could not do alone. Later writers found this paternalistic and emphasized the importance of the patient's free will. This essay uses the ideas of positive and negative freedom to (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  • A new argument against compatibilism.Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum - 2013 - Analysis (1):ant095.
    If one’s solution to the free will problem is in terms of real causal powers of agents then one ought to be an incompatibilist. Some premises are contentious but the following new argument for incompatibilism is advanced: 1. If causal determinism is true, all events are necessitated2. If all events are necessitated, then there are no powers3. Free will consists in the exercise of an agent’s powersTherefore, if causal determinism is true, there is no free will; which is to say (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  • Autonomie als Rechtfertigungsgrund psychiatrischer Therapien.Orsolya Friedrich & Pd Dr Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs - 2014 - Ethik in der Medizin 26 (4).
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • El sentido de la libertad.Luis Eduardo Hoyos - 2009 - Ideas Y Valores 58 (141):85-107.
    El artículo pretende preparar el terreno conceptual para el uso correcto de la atribución de libertad. Se defiende en él la importancia de considerar la complementariedad de la libertad de la acción y la libertad de la voluntad, y se aboga a favor de una concepción no metafísica de la adscripción de..
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  • Invoking a Cartesian product structure on social states: New resolutions of Sen’s and Gibbard’s impossibility theorems.Herrade Igersheim - 2013 - Theory and Decision 74 (4):463-477.
    The purpose of this article is to introduce a Cartesian product structure into the social choice theoretical framework and to examine if new possibility results to Gibbard’s and Sen’s paradoxes can be developed thanks to it. We believe that a Cartesian product structure is a pertinent way to describe individual rights in the social choice theory since it discriminates the personal features comprised in each social state. First we define some conceptual and formal tools related to the Cartesian product structure. (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Is the Disposition of Constrained Maximization Chosen Rationally?Young-Ran Roh - 2005 - Theory and Decision 59 (1):19-41.
    One of the most important issues in moral philosophy is whether morality can be justified by rationality. The purpose of this study is to examine Gauthier’s moral theory, focusing on the disposition of constrained maximization, which is the main thrust of his project to justify morality rationally. First of all, I shall investigate Gauthier’s assumption and condition for the rationality of the disposition of constrained maximization so as to disclose that the disposition of constrained maximization is not necessarily chosen by (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Selbstbestimmung. Freier Wille, Verantwortung und Determinismus.Michael Pauen - 2007 - Synthesis Philosophica 22 (2):455-475.
    Eine Analyse unseres auf dem gesunden Menschenverstand beruhenden Freiheitskonzeptes ergibt zwei „minimale Kriterien“: 1) Autonomie bedeutet einen Unterschied zwischen Freiheit und Zwang; 2) Urheberschaft bedeutet einen Unterschied zwischen Freiheit und Zufall. Die Auslegung von Freiheit als „Selbstbestimmung“ kann für beide Kriterien in Anspruch genommen werden. „Selbstbestimmung“ wird verstanden als Bestimmung anhand „persönlicher Vorlieben“, die für die betreffende Person konstituierend sind. Freiheit und Determinismus sind also kompatibel. Die Schlüsselfrage ist nicht, ob unser Handeln überhaupt determiniert ist, sondern eher, ob dies durch (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  • Questions of the Self in the Personal Autonomy Debate: Some Critical Remarks on Frankfurt and Watson.Sharli Anne Paphitis - 2010 - South African Journal of Philosophy 29 (2):117-131.
    Currently, the most influential accounts of personal autonomy, at least in the English-speaking world, focus on providing conditions under which agents can be said to exercise self-control. Two distinct accounts of personal autonomy have emerged in this tradition: firstly, hierarchical models grounded in the work of Harry Frankfurt; and secondly, systems division models most famously articulated by Gary Watson. In this paper, I will show the inadequacies of both of these models by exploring the problematic views of the self and (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  • Moral Responsibility Beyond Classical Compatibilist and Incompatibilist Accounts.Sofia Bonicalzi - 2013 - Prolegomena 12 (1):21-41.
    The concept of “moral responsibility” has almost always been defined in relation to a certain idea of metaphysical freedom and to a conception of the physical world. So, classically, for indeterminist thinkers, human beings are free and therefore responsible, if their choices are not defined by a previous state of the world but derive from an autonomous selection among a set of alternatives. Differently, for the majority of determinist philosophers , the only form of freedom we need has to be (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark