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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"compatibilism"”.
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Reasons, Agency, and Responsibility: A Defence of Soft Compatibilism
I defend a thesis of soft compatibilism. First, I argue that libertarian free will is incompatible with causal determinism and indeterminism because the human will is subject to antecedent conditions. If causal determinism is true, then these antecedent conditions are sufficient for the will to be …
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It could not have been otherwise: an articulation and defense of divine source compatibilism
… I will call in this dissertation, Divine Source Compatibilism (DSC). In chapter 1 and 2 I introduce both this study and the view of divine freedom under consideration, namely, DSC. Chapter 3 explores whether or not DSC seriously deviates from the claims of the Christian tradition regarding divine …
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The Sin Against the Holy Spirit in the Writings of G. C. Berkouwer and E. G. White: a Comparative Study and Ethical Implications
… without the involvement of human response, non-compatibilism claims that divine love requires both human choice along with a behavioral response. This dissertation examines these respective dilemmas in the context of the sin against the Holy Spirit with the purpose of ascertaining how these …
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Incompatibilist Alternative Possibilities
… the more critical. </p> <p>In chapter 2, “Leeway Compatibilism and Frankfurt-Style Cases”, I examine the new dispositionalists’ defense of the position that an agent in a deterministic Frankfurt-style case (FSC) has the ability to do otherwise, where that ability is the one at issue in PAP. …
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Mechanism and rationality : the case for explanatory incompatibilism
This thesis is an attempt to defend explanatory incompatibilism, the view that mechanistic and intentional explanations of behaviour are incompatible, against various sorts of objections which come in the form of rival compatibilist theories. In the first chapter the author outlines the prima facie …
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Modified Libertarianism: An Analysis of Eleonore Stump's Interpretation of Augustinian Freedom
… be better articulated as a modified version of compatibilism rather than libertarianism.
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Rational Capacities and the Practice of Blame: A Skeptical Argument
… looking at a position I call rational capacity compatibilism (RCC). My interest in RCC concerns the fact that it has done more than any other theory of responsibility to set out the relationship between our rational capacities and the practice of blame. I use the most well developed RCC …
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… approach to determinism and constrnctivism, a compatibilism only revealed by a nuanced and thorough understanding of Hobbes's deistic theology and Winstanley's pantheism. In so doing, it offers a revised approach to both thinkers that contests the dichotomous approach to determinism and …
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Freedom and fatalism in Wittgenstein's “Lectures on Freedom of the Will”
… vis-à-vis a putatively Wittgensteinian form of compatibilism, exemplified by Kai Nielsen. Albeit in different ways, Wittgenstein and Nielsen are both concerned to show why being caused to act, e.g. by the laws of nature, does not equate to being compelled to act, e.g. against one’s will. Unlike …
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The freedom of what we care about: revisiting Frankfurt's hierarchical theory of free will
This dissertation concerns the problem of free will. Particularly, it aims to shed light on the hierarchical theory of freedom, firstly presented by Harry Frankfurt in 1971. The preliminary hypothesis of this dissertation is that the problem of free will is appropriately understood in the terms …
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Choice, ownership and responsibility
My dissertation is to answer these two questions: "Does moral responsibility require choice?" and "If not, what does it require?" Classic accounts of moral responsibility, such as libertarian accounts, assume a volition condition - we are not morally responsible for a behavior unless we have …
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Padre, perdónalos porque no saben lo que hacen: una perspectiva semi-compatibilista
Si se interpreta la primera palabra de Cristo en la cruz, con referencia a los verdugos que causaron su crucifixión, en clave de omnisciencia divina luterana y ausencia de posibilidades alternativas, surgiría una aparente contradicción en cuanto a la responsabilidad moral y el deber de aquellos: …