Elzein, Nadine and Pernu, Tuomas K. (2017) Supervenient freedom and the free will deadlock. Disputatio, 45. pp. 219-243.
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Supervenient libertarianism maintains that indeterminism may exist at a supervening agency level, consistent with determinism at a subvening physical level. It seems as if this approach has the potential to break the longstanding deadlock in the free will debate, since it concedes to the traditional incompatibilist that agents can only do otherwise if they can do so in their actual circumstances, holding the past and the laws constant, while nonetheless arguing that this ability is compatible with physical determinism. However, we argue that supervenient libertarianism faces some serious problems, and that it fails to break us free from this deadlock within the free will debate.
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| Keywords: | compatibilism; determinism; incompatibilism; non-reductive physicalism; supervenient libertarianism | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Tuomas K. Pernu | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2018 20:21 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2018 20:21 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 14941 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Disputatio | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/disp/9/4... | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Psychology General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | 2017 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 219-243 | |||||||||
| Volume: | 45 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14941 |
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