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Questions concerning the freedom of choice of rational agents (often as opposed to determinism).

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Can we say consciousness is proportional to free will and inversely proportional to determinism ?
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There is a famous argument against free will made mostly by non-philosophers. It's quite common in YouTube comments; for its common formulation, here is an excerpt from Sabine Hossenfelder's book &...
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How could Newtonian inertia be applied to mind to break the causal chain and support free will? How can mental states responsible for taking decisions be inertial--persist without a determining cause?
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I'd suppose that determinism pertains mainly to efficient causality. Now the SEP says this of Aristotle's picture of free will: While Aristotle shares with Plato a concern for cultivating virtues, he ...
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If we (as we must necessarily recognize under determinism) cannot think otherwise than what we think, and neither we are able: a) to identify the chain of causality that has led us think A rather than ...
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Although I derive these questions from John Milton's Paradise Lost, my intention is not to discuss its content as literature, but rather to examine the concept of free will that Milton proposes — ...
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a) If the universe is (causally) deterministic, and b) if rational arguments, evidence, and high-quality information reliably exert causative power to shift beliefs in most other domains of inquiry (e....
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How fundamental is libertarian free will to the political ideal of libertarianism? Can I replace the project by using compatibilist freewill instead? What are the difference that emerge when one does ...
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What are instances of serious philosophers discussing whether people can directly sense genuine "libertarian" hard free will? (1) What form might that take? Do any such citations also ...
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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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Does free will conceptually require memory? If an agent acts intentionally but later lacks any memory of deliberation or choice, are those actions still free in the relevant philosophical sense, or ...
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In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, there are two propositions. 6.373 The world is independent of my will. 6.43 If good or bad willing changes the world, then it can only change the limits of the ...
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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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There's this argument by Sam Harris and his followers that our thoughts are out of our control. They often present it in a two arguments, which goes like, If you just try and stop having thoughts you ...
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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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