Free will as an open scientific problem:
In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will and determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philosophical problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events. In the course of his argument, Balaguer provides a natural...
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| Summary: | In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will and determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philosophical problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events. In the course of his argument, Balaguer provides a naturalistic defense of the libertarian view of free will. Balaguer claims that the compatibilism debate (the question of whether free will is compatible with determinism) is essentially irrelevant to metaphysical questions about the nature of human freedom, most notably "Do humans have free will?" Likewise, the questions "What is free will?" and "Which kinds of freedom are required for moral responsibility?" are argued to be irrelevant to substantive questions about the metaphysics of human free will. The metaphysical component of the problem of free will, Balaguer argues, essentially boils down to the question of whether humans possess libertarian free will. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to the traditional wisdom, the libertarian question reduces to a question about indeterminacy - in particular, to a straightforward empirical question about whether certain neural events in our heads are causally undetermined in a certain specific way. |
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Titel: Free will as an open scientific problem
Autor: Balaguer, Mark
Jahr: 2010
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Formulating the Problem of Free Will 1
1.2 Some Remarks on Libertarianism 15
1.3 Synopsis of the Book 18
2 Why the Compatibilism Issue and the Conceptual-Analysis Issue Are
Metaphysically Irrelevant 25
2.1 Introduction 25
2.2 What Determines Whether an Answer to the What-ls-Free-Will Question Is
Correct? 28
2.3 Why the What-ls-Free-Will Question Is Irrelevant to the Do-We-Have-Free-Will
Question, Assuming the OL View Is Correct 30
2.4 Why the What-ls-Free-Will Question Is Irrelevant to the Do-We-Have-Free-Will
Question, Even if the OL View Isn't Correct 35
2.5 Why the Compatibilism Question Reduces to the What-ls-Free-Will Question 45
2.6 Where We Stand and Where We're Going Next 53
2.7 An Aside: Some Remarks on the What-ls-Free-Will Question, the Compatibilism
Question, and the Moral Responsibility Question 55
3 Why the Libertarian Question Reduces to the Issue of
Indeterminacy 65
3.1 Introduction 65
3.2 Preliminaries 71
3.3 The Argument 83
3.4 Non-torn Decisions 120
3.5 Where We Stand 1 30
Contents
4 Why There Are No Good Arguments for or against Determinism (or
Any Other Thesis That Would Establish or Refute Libertarianism) 131
4.1 Introduction 131
4.2 An A Priori Argument for Determinism (and, Hence, against TDW-
Indeterminism)? 135
4.3 An A Priori Argument for Libertarianism (and, Hence, in Favor of TDW-
Indeterminism)? 137
4.4 Empirical Arguments? 141
4.5 Where We Stand 165
Notes 171
References 185
Index 195 |
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