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Hume on Determinism and a Moral God
As far as I can make out, the argument concerns the following propositions:
A. Determinism [premise]
B. Existence of an all-knowing creator deity [premise]
C. Apparent evils are not ultimately evil [...
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Do most philosophers believe that foreknowledge means that God has to determine everything?
Is this statement from a blog post a commonly accepted tenet among philosophers?
For God to foreknow choices presupposes his determination of their antecedent causes.
In simple terms, is their ...
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How can materialist philosophers reconcile free will and determinism aka adopting compatibilism?
Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are both true ("compatible").
The defenders of the soul's existence argue that without the soul a person is just a mechanical being ...
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Is it possible to sustain a compatibilist stance about free will that "resembles" the "coehrence theory of truth"?
Sorry for the wall of text that follows, but I think I've to clarify "where" this question come from. But you can skip right to point 4 is want to get directly to the question. Thank you for ...
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Does "radically evil by nature" follow from Kant's quasi-compatibilism?
In the first Critique, when he deals with the Third Antinomy, Kant appears to advance a sort of quasi-compatibilism where human actions in experience are strictly ordered by causality, but their ...
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If Determinism Is True, Is Moral Responsibility Still Intelligible?
Determinism holds that every event is the necessary result of preceding causes and laws of nature.
If all our actions are determined by prior states of the universe—genes, environment, neural ...
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Why do most philosophers of religion accept or lean towards a libertarianism conception of free will?
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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When were Compatibilist and Incompatibilist Free Will Defined?
I have seen several incidents where people arguing over free will would accuse each other redefining the concept of free will in order to win an argument. I may have also been at some point convinced ...
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Causality, compatibilism and the recognition of determinism
What I seem to know so far:
So in a deterministic universe, pretty much everything is laid out and this means there is no free-will if this was a deterministic universe, you and I would not have the ...
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Defending Pereboom's deliberation-compatibilism from Widerker's objections, conceptualizing "agents" as Turing machines
I am trying to overcome David Widerker's objection to Derk Pereboom's account of rational deliberation. I include both Pereboom's account and Widerker's objection as a reminder/introduction at the end ...
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What kind of free will does Harry Potter have while travelling in time?
In the movie A prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter is saved by a mysterious figure that looks like his father shortly before passing out. After that, he learns that time travel is real. He travels to ...
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Can an action be both determined and free?
The classical argument against free will, is that, in a deterministic universe, since everything is determined, so are human actions, and thus no human action is free. But this relies on the hidden ...
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Dennett vs Sapolsky on free will: A clash over different claims?
On a recent Youtube episode of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal Daniel Dennett, author and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, discusses his views of Robert ...
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'Free will' as a 'confused concept': Is Ned Block correct?
A recent episode of Robert Kuhn's web series Closer to Truth puts the question of free will to Ned Block, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the University of New York.
Block states 'free will' ...
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Does compatibilism redefine free will?
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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