Even a few scientists have made specious scientific arguments for free will, most commonly with the indeterminism of quantum mechanics. This chapter takes the stance that physics is not the appropriate discipline for resolving the free-will issue: neuroscience is.W.R. Klemm...
(redirected fromPhilosophical arguments for censorship) Thesaurus Medical Legal Encyclopedia cen·sor·ship (sĕn′sər-shĭp′) n. 1.The act, process, or practice of censoring. 2.The office or authority of a Roman censor. 3.PsychologyPrevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings...
Question: The free will debate is a long-standing philosophical discussion about whether or not humans have the ability to choose and make decisions independently of outside influences. For this discussion, you will consider the various philosophical argum...
To enhance understanding and facilitate comparisons among the philosophical problems within the DIKWP (Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom-Purpose) framework, we will expand our previous analysis by providing detailed tables. These tables will systematically present the mappings and transformations for each pro...
What are the philosophical arguments for and against nationalism? How does the concept of privacy change in modern societies? What is the role of education in shaping political consciousness? How do environmental ethics intersect with social and political philosophy?
To be clear from the beginning, we do not think the results or our arguments from previous chapters have restrictionist implications for all philosophical projects. Our restrictionist target is much more, well, restricted. We do not think that the empirical results that we have reported in Chaps...
That is, the arguments reviewed in this chapter state that because of the expertise (e.g., knowledge, skills) of philosophers, they will not fall prey to worrisome biases that we have documented. For example, because philosophers are experts, their personality should not influence their ...
Function f1: Assess arguments supporting free will. Function f2: Evaluate evidence for determinism. Function f3: Explore compatibilist positions. Conscious Space: Emergent Properties: Sense of Agency (SA): Feeling of control over actions. Decision-Making Processes (DMP): Cognitive mechanisms underlying...
It’s never pleasurable to read (i) caricatures, (ii) misunderstandings, (iii) reckless treatment of opposing views and (iv) badly formulated arguments – especially by other Christians. It is pleasurable, however, given such grave misfortune, to read precise interaction with such positions. One...
A well-known exception is Feldman (1995, 1996, 2016) who holds that we can be deserving without being responsible for our performance on a desert base—for instance, we can be deserving on the basis of how needy we are. For a careful discussion of Feldman’s arguments, see Smilansky (19...