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  1. Jan 7, 2002 · Free Will. First published Mon Jan 7, 2002; substantive revision Thu Nov 3, 2022. The term “free will” has emerged over the past two millennia as the canonical designator for a significant kind of control over one’s actions. Questions concerning the nature and existence of this kind of control (e.g., does it require and do we have the ...

  2. Jan 10, 2016 · connects the evolution of the universe with the human quest for self-realization. 3. Introduction. In essays by world-renowned philosophers such as Aristotle, Philo, Aquinas, Spinoza, Descartes ...

  3. nwagen and other incompatibilists claim. The Consequence Argument would show that determinism conflicts with anyone’s power to do oth. rw. se and thus conflicts with free will.3. An Objec. ion Concerning “Can” and “Power”The Consequence Argument is a powerful argument for the incompatibil-ity of free will and det.

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  4. Mar 3, 2005 · Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Free Will provides a guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of free will—perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis is on recent research.

  5. Every definition of free will is invariably ambiguous, as it is incomplete. The ambiguous nature of the definition of many human-constructed concepts, such as happiness and freedom, is the recurring problem. In the absence of a comprehensive and detailed definition of free will, one may instead ask whether complete free will is possible.

  6. Jan 26, 2019 · Plato offers a dual theory offering limited support for free will. Leibnitz includes theological tenets to make the case for predetermined outcomes. Hobbes and Hume contend that moral beliefs and ethical standards are conditions that support causal determinism.

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  8. Jan 7, 2002 · Free Will. First published Mon Jan 7, 2002; substantive revision Thu Apr 14, 2005. “Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. Which sort is the free will sort is what all the fuss is about.

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