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Jan 13, 2017 · Monroe and Malle and Stillman, Baumeister, and Mele both reported choice and unconstrained action as the most important factors in the way people perceive free will, and Feldman, Baumeister, and Wong demonstrated strong cognitive links between the concepts of choice and free-will.
- Gilad Feldman
- 13 January 2017
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- 11, Issue1
Free will is an enigmatic, autonomous causative force shrouded in conceptual ambiguity about what it is, where it comes from, and how it manages to operate autonomously in the midst of environmental pressures.
Abstract. Baumeister discusses determinism and reductionism with emphases on self-regulation and conscious and meaningful causation of behavior. Baumeister concludes that freedom exists but can only be seen by looking at the proper level of analysis.
Jan 1, 2014 · This fits a growing body of work suggesting that high belief in free will goes with an agentic approach to life, as in taking action and initiative to pursue goals and get things done (e.g., Alquist et al., 2013, Alquist et al., 2013, Baumeister et al., 2009, Stillman et al., 2010).
- Roy F. Baumeister, Andrew E. Monroe
- 2014
Jul 9, 2010 · In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors explore such issues as how free will is connected to rational choice, planning, and self-control; roles for consciousness in decision making; the nature and power of conscious deciding; connections among free will, consciousness, and quantum mechanics; why free will and consciousness might have ...
Free will supporters and incremental theorists, by making people freer agents (with more control) in the chain of causes, give people moral responsibility. But because people also have self-forming power, it becomes a different kind of moral system, one with the emphasis on moral education rather than on retribution.
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Jan 28, 2016 · Professor Roy Baumeister discusses his work in free will and decision making. He explains how the concept of free will migrated from philosophical questions around determinism to psychological ideas of causality.
