Free Will, Determinism, and Epiphenomenalism

This paper articulates a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian kind of free will—a kind of free will that's incompatible with both determinism and epiphenomenalism—and responds to scientific arguments against the existence of this sort of freedom. In other words, the paper argues that we don't ha...

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Autor principal: Balaguer, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
Materias:
Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30687149
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02623
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description This paper articulates a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian kind of free will—a kind of free will that's incompatible with both determinism and epiphenomenalism—and responds to scientific arguments against the existence of this sort of freedom. In other words, the paper argues that we don't have any good empirical scientific reason to believe that human beings don't possess a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian sort of free will.
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spelling pubmed-63336392019-01-25 Free Will, Determinism, and Epiphenomenalism Balaguer, Mark Front Psychol Psychology This paper articulates a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian kind of free will—a kind of free will that's incompatible with both determinism and epiphenomenalism—and responds to scientific arguments against the existence of this sort of freedom. In other words, the paper argues that we don't have any good empirical scientific reason to believe that human beings don't possess a non-epiphenomenal, libertarian sort of free will. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6333639/ /pubmed/30687149 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02623 Text en Copyright © 2019 Balaguer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Free Will, Determinism, and Epiphenomenalism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30687149
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