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Questions concerning the freedom of choice of rational agents (often as opposed to determinism).
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Can the sorites paradox be one the keys to understand free will?
The sorites paradox is perhaps the greatest paradox of our universe. Things exist. Different things. Things are themselves, and they are different from what they are not (principle of identity). This ...
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Supermarket Trolley [closed]
Imagine you enter a supermarket that stocks every edible item ever produced. You need exactly one week’s worth of food. Standing at the entrance is an autonomous “Random-healthy-Fill” trolley. As soon ...
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If God is good, what corruption absolves god of responsibility or accountability? Is it Free Will? [closed]
There is an idea in Western religious philosophy that God is good, so when bad things happen, some agent of corruption is blamed. When trying to reduce these arguments you run into free will. The ...
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If Determinism Is True, Is Moral Responsibility Still Intelligible?
Determinism holds that every event is the necessary result of preceding causes and laws of nature.
If all our actions are determined by prior states of the universe—genes, environment, neural ...
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Can we rule out determinism with a bet? [closed]
My definition of determinism:
An event is determined if it is predictable.
If it is not predictable, we cannot know that it is determined.
The claim is then not falsifiable and therefore unscientific.
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Is violence ever morally justifiable to restore dignity in conditions of extreme passive coercion? [closed]
I came up with a thought experiment to reach the limits of reason, to bring to light what I consider a very important problem.
Is violence justified in matters of dignity, or lack thereof?
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Determinism & Free Will [duplicate]
If nature is entirely deterministic, how can any philosopher—including Nietzsche—justify the existence of true free will?
I struggle to understand where the chain of determinism breaks. Animals, trees,...
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Does the concept of rationality presuppose the existence of free will?
We label certain people and actions as rational vs. irrational. But doesn't that presuppose the existence of free will? After all, if an action A is more rational than another action A', that means ...
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Could one choose/decide not to have (or to give up their) free will?
The question is inspired in part by Sartre's writing in "Being and Nothingness" [Hazel E. Barnes's 1957 translation, my highlights], specifically
I am condemned to exist forever beyond my ...
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How is free will possible with physicalism? [duplicate]
I have this doubt. I have a physicalist viewpoint, but I'm not sure how it's even compatible with free will regardless of whether the universe is determisitic or not.
If it's deterministic, anyone's ...
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Why do folks believe in free will despite no philosophical proof?
There isn't a single, universally accepted philosophical proof of free will. However, the majority of modern people believe in it. It raises other questions. How can a philosophical position reconcile ...
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Alternate explanation of free will vs determinism [closed]
I believe that free will is present(unless there is medical blackout or serious medical disprder) in every voluntary action that we do and it certainly have a consequence.
Furthermore, I think ...
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Is free will necessary for consciousness? [closed]
Altough a very vague concept, we all agree on the fact that free will entails conscious experiences, but is the contrary also true?
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How do theories of moral luck or determinism challenge the idea of merit-based judgment?
I’ve been thinking about how often people are judged as “better” or “worse” based on what they’ve achieved or how they’ve acted, without much consideration of the circumstances that shaped them.
For ...
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Is consciousness just an illusion?
If consciousness is merely the product of complex brain processes and chemical reactions, can it truly be said to exist independently of the physical brain? If the mind is purely a byproduct of the ...
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