The crux of his argument is that, yes, our brains work through action potentials and neurotransmitters and other molecular phenomena. But our psychology can’t and shouldn’t be reduced to those aspects. He writes that the only reason that voltage changes across neuronal cell membranes ...
DETERMINISM, AFFIRMATION, AND FREE CHOICEAnalytic PhilosophyContemporary PhilosophyGeneral InterestFirst page of articledoi:10.1111/j.2041-6962.1986.tb00433.xJeffrey CobbBlackwell Publishing LtdSouthern Journal of Philosophy
Folk Fears about Freedom and Responsibility: Determinism vs. Reductionism My initial work, with collaborators Stephen Morris, Thomas Nadelhoffer, and Jason Turner (2005, 2006), on surveying folk intuitions about free will and mor... E Nahmias - 《Journal of Cognition & Culture》 被引量: 84发...
choice DETERMINISM Faith FREE WILL Jesus Christ pre destination SUFFERING The Meaning of Life WHY DO WE SUFFER FREE WILL: REAL OR ILLUSORY? Once I started questioning if reality is exactly what we perceive it to be, I began to discover some of the weird, wacky and wild philosophies at lar...
We wish, however, to point out some of the mental gymnastics one must go through in order to practice psychological science while maintaining faith in determinism. Let us return for a moment to choice, which has been an important topic of study in social psychology for decades. To a determin...
choice reactionsthoughtcreativitybrain mapsEEG rhythmsThis articles discusses the question of which higher brain functions are in fact completely determined by the environment and past history of a person or whether the brain is to some extent free to choose a behavioral response in order to achieve...
In this paper, I seek to show that a major reason for the increasingly negative evaluation of Luther in Swedish theology had to do with widespread misgivings over Luther's rejection free choice in De servo arbitrio (1525). I give an account of the emergence of these misgivings, trace them ...
In this paper, I seek to show that a major reason for the increasingly negative evaluation of Luther in Swedish theology had to do with widespread misgivings overLuther's rejection free choice in De servo arbitrio (1525). I give an account of the emergence of these misgivings, trace them ...
The thesis of this dissertation is that Aristotle, along with several of his successors, accepts an account of human free choice that is both incompatibilist and philosophically attractive.Long, Roderick Tracy
Free will and determinismConscious intentionsWe know little about the commonality of folk beliefs around applications of psychological research on the unconscious control of behaviours. To address this, in Experiment 1 (N = 399) participants volunteered examples of where research on the unconscious has...