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FREE WILL AND THE SOFT CONSTRAINTS OF REASON
Author(s) -
Costa Claudio F.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2006.00306.x
Subject(s) - compatibilism , epistemology , free will , action (physics) , elaboration , counterexample , incompatibilism , philosophy , mathematics , physics , discrete mathematics , quantum mechanics , humanities
This paper provides a new compatibilist definition of free will, which is an elaboration of the classic compatibilist view of free will as absence of restriction, with the help of the causal theory of action and some special categories. This new definition enables us to neutralize a very wide range of counterexamples in a systematic and compelling way, including those left unanswered by hierarchical definitions. 1