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Elzein, Nadine and Pernu, Tuomas K. (2017) Supervenient freedom and the free will deadlock. Disputatio, 9 (45). pp. 219-243. doi:10.1515/disp-2017-0005 ISSN 0873-626X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/disp-2017-0005
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Disputatio | ||||||
Publisher: | Sciendo | ||||||
ISSN: | 0873-626X | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 9 | ||||||
Number: | 45 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 219-243 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1515/disp-2017-0005 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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