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Attempting to recast someone else's question in a form that might draw answers closer to what they are seeking: Are there citable instances of serious philosophers discussing whether people can ...
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The SEP entry on the epistemology of modality mentions perceptual theories, where there are true claims like, "Cynthia perceived that it was possible for her to defy gravity," or, "...
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Rebecca Goldstein, a renowned novelist and philosopher, in one of her chats with closer to truth raised this important issue with free will. ​Her argument is simple: if the world is deterministic, we ...
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Free will is often defined as the ability to do otherwise at a given moment in time. The classic determinism vs. randomness dilemma claims this is impossible: if actions are determined, we couldn't ...
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When philosophers at large are surveyed, we observe this distribution (N=1758 [source]. 59.16% accept or lean towards compatibalism; 18.83% accept or lean towards libertarianism; 11.21% accept or lean ...
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This is getting long. Here's the TL;DR; The determinism-randomness dilemma has been discussed a lot both on this forum and in philosophy as a whole. What I was trying to get at here is that the ...
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Note that by randomness, I don’t mean a particular kind of random process (such as a uniformly random distribution), but rather something occurring without a deeper reason. In libertarian free will, ...
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A "non-prime world" is an abnormal world in modal logic where a disjunction can be true even if none of its disjuncts hold true. So they can be seen as a sort of "impossible" world....
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Unfortunately, a few days ago, I asked what should have been a clear and simple question in a desperately labyrinth-like, nonlinear manner. The question should have been, "How is moral ...
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Counterfactuals are events that may occur, but often don't. Such a concept tends to accompany the libertarian free will position, since if there is a free choice among alternatives, then this ...
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I don't see the existence/non-existence of free will as meaningful, ethically speaking. I'll explain what I mean. Let's say we have some agent, and the agent takes an action we think is bad. In a ...
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I seem to remember some philosophers who believe in LFW posit that it only comes into play with major life decisions; you may not consciously decide to raise a forkful to your mouth, but you might ...
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In an essay titled "How to Think about the Problem of Free Will", Peter van Inwagen writes: ‘free will’, ‘incompatibilist free will’, ‘compatibilist free will’, and ‘libertarian free will’ ...
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What I'm looking for is a detailed description of the decision-making process of an agent that possesses libertarian free will, when this agent is on the verge of making a choice, at some time t. For ...
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I understand libertarian free will as an agent's ability to choose otherwise, or having more than one course of action available to them, when making a choice at time t, given a fixed past up to t. ...
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