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Arthurs, Frank. "Free will, determinism, and moral responsibility." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6857/.
Full textCole, Ryan L. "Free will a compatibilist account /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2008/r_cole_112408.pdf.
Full textTitle from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 23, 2008). "Department of Philosophy." Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).
Bobzien, Susanne. "Determinism and free will in Stoic philosophy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334904.
Full textWhitney, Eoin. "Compatibilism of Causal Determinism and Free Will." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1017.
Full textLaird, Kirstie. "Free will and mental causation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365538.
Full textWilson, David Thomas. "The nature of free will." Thesis, Electronic version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/385.
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Free will and nature -- Metaphysical free will -- Incompatibilism -- Causal closure of the physical domain -- Free will and physics -- Free will within nature.
There is more than one problem of free will. Many philosophers approach the free will question seeking a foundation for systems of ethics or a justification for societal practices of praise and blame. ... Rather, I address the metaphysical question of how to accommodate free will within the natural world. I conclude that the natural world is not identical with the physical world and that it must contain entities or influences that are not physical in any current sense of that word.
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Inglis, Kelly. "Conscious will : illusion or reality? /." Thesis, View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35881549.
Full textPerez, Edward Mario. "The philosophical problem of free will." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWilson, Kenneth Mitchell. "Augustine's conversion from traditional free choice to "non-free free will" : a comprehensive methodology." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:823cd43d-04f5-4c5d-ab0a-43be52ca1077.
Full textChoi, Jung K. "Balthazar Hubmaier's understanding of free will." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1199.
Full textDonnelly, Matthew P. "A critical evaluation of freewill theism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKelland, Lindsay-Ann. "Determinism and reactive attitudes: reflections on our alleged unrenounceable commitments." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002843.
Full textShaw, Elizabeth. "Free will, punishment and criminal responsibility." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9590.
Full textBishop, Robert Charles. "Chaotic dynamics, indeterminacy and free will /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textHarris, Ashley K. "Effects of Free Will, Determinism, and Conscientiousness on Academic Cheating." Marietta College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1471523673.
Full textKelsey, E. Benjamin. "Freedom and forfeiture responding to Galen Strawson's basic argument /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08152008-154026/.
Full textTitle from file title page. Eddy Nahmias, committee chair; Sebastian Rand, Timothy O'Keefe, committee members. Electronic text (58 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed October 8, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58).
DeLong, Edwin R. "Arminianism, verbal inspiration, and the loss of libertarian freedom does obtaining a verbally inspired and inerrant scripture entail a loss of libertarian freedom? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textNicholls, Jason A. "Omniscience in the divine openness a critical analysis of present knowledge in God /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textStojanovich, Mladen. "Death, free will and sin in the Orthodox perspective." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1992. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0240.
Full textDavis, Paul. "The cheap tricks of compatibilism and why the problem of free will won't go away." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18821.
Full textBawulski, Shawn J. "Grace and free will libertarianism, the Arminian soteriological framework, and freely chosen faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1578.
Full textCagatay, Hasan. "Free Will And Determinism: Are They Even Relevant To Each Other?" Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614162/index.pdf.
Full texthowever, in this thesis, I defend just the opposite view: free will has no significant dependence on the deterministic or indeterministic character of causal relations. In the same way, I propose that the question, whether or not determinism is true, cannot be answered based on observations about the problem of free will. I believe that the genuine question whose answer would illuminate the darkness surrounding free will is whether or not will supervenes on anything other than itself. Therefore, in order to decide whether or not we are free, the question we should ask is &ldquo
Does will supervene upon something other than itself?&rdquo
Moreover, I defend the position that no matter whether the world is deterministic or indeterministic, if physicalism is true, i.e. if properties of free will supervene upon physical properties, then we cannot enjoy genuine freedom. The position of the thesis has some important ethical implications: If we cannot be genuinely free, we cannot be genuinely responsible for our actions either. This implies that retributive and admirative desires towards other persons are rationally untenable. I defend the view that only practical attitudes like reinforcement and punishment or isolation and inclusion are rationally tenable.
Chan, Hoi-yee, and 陳凱宜. "Free will and experimental philosophy : when an old debate meets a new movement." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207187.
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Leach, Trenton Douglas. "On Alvin Plantinga's Molinist account of the compatability [sic] of divine foreknowledge and human freedom." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textSkepple, Roger Whitfield Fitzgerald. "Of God, angels and men freedom of the will, a moral paradigm /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGreer, Sacha. "Cogs in a Cosmic Machine: A Defense of Free Will Skepticism and its Ethical Implications." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5487.
Full textMobbs, Dean. "Free will versus determinism : how 'reflective' and 'reflexive' systems modulate affective behavior." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497962.
Full textFerreira, Maria Andreia. "Livre - ArbÃtrio: um debate filosÃfico e neurocientÃfico." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=18304.
Full textSabemos que o problema do livre-arbÃtrio à tratado, pelo menos, desde Epiteto. A liberdade de escolha que âjulgamosâ possuir à algo que supomos ser inerente à natureza humana. AlÃm disso, parece que sà poderemos ser pessoalmente responsÃveis por nossos atos se os realizarmos livremente. Acreditamos que ser responsÃveis por nossas aÃÃes e escolhas à o que nos torna diferentes dos outros animais. No entanto, apesar de todas essas nossas intuiÃÃes, nÃo sà algumas correntes filosÃficas defendem que nÃo somos livres, mas tambÃm a ciÃncia parece nos dizer que somos sistemas ou mÃquinas determinÃsticas. Os resultados de vÃrios experimentos neurocientÃficos tÃm sugerido que nÃo escolhemos conscientemente fazer o que fazemos. E, posto que a noÃÃo de livre-arbÃtrio tem como prÃ-requisito bÃsico a noÃÃo de consciÃncia, entÃo parece que hà um conflito entre nossas intuiÃÃes cotidianas e as conclusÃes cientÃficas e filosÃficas. O objetivo central desta dissertaÃÃo serÃ, nÃo somente analisar a coerÃncia conceitual das diversas teses sobre o livre-arbÃtrio que surgiram na GrÃcia clÃssica e nos estudos neurocientÃficos atuais, mas tambÃm mostrar que as explicaÃÃes que tentam conectar os fenÃmenos subjetivos e objetivos relativos ao problema nos levaram, ao menos, atà o presente momento, a uma lacuna explicativa. Isto Ã, uma lacuna na explicaÃÃo sobre como podemos conectar nossas intuiÃÃes subjetivas sobre como somos os autores de nossas aÃÃes e as explicaÃÃes objetivas sobre como nosso corpo executa tais aÃÃes.
Pillai, Jessica D. "God's change of mind." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHarrison, David J. "Connectionism, folk psychology and cognitive architecture." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322924.
Full textKaiserman, Alexander. "Cause and context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a887f7cc-64df-40b5-8587-0eb89bfa5fd5.
Full textNordstrom, Samuel C. "Manipulation That Matters: The Manipulation Debate Considered." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1273.
Full textEvans, Blake W. S. "Determined Freedom: On Moral Responsibility Between Chance and Necessitation." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619724559950428.
Full textGhisleri, Luca. "Inizio e scelta il problema della libertà nel pensiero di Luigi Pareyson /." Torino : Trauben : Centro studi filosofico-religiosi Luigi Pareyson, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/54987376.html.
Full textKupcu, Yoldas Aybuke. "In Search Of Free Will." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611721/index.pdf.
Full textPigden, John. "Human free will and post-Holocaust theology : a critical appraisal of the way human free will is employed as a theodicy in post-Holocaust theology." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683352.
Full textFisk, Philip J. "The integral relation of impeccability and freedom to the projects of Cyril of Alexandria, John Calvin, Petrus van Mastricht, and Jonathan Edwards." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p036-0399.
Full textBurke, Catherine Margaret. "The possibility of free will: John Duns Scotus and William James on the will." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3895.
Full textCarlson, Allison Doreen, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Free will in the educational theory of Jacques Maritain." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1991, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/47.
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Rydberg, Andreas. "Viljebegreppet och psykologin : En studie av psykologins framväxt som vetenskap i Sverige genom en analys av viljebegreppets betydelseförändring." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of History of Science and Ideas, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-103264.
Full textThe aim of this study is to elucidate the process in which psychology was separated from philosophy and established itself as a distinct academic discipline in Sweden. I argue that the concept of will, as well as the concepts of thinking and emotion, have a lot to tell us about the rise of academic psychology in Sweden. This is done through an analysis of psychology textbooks, encyclopaedia-articles and academic texts on the themes will and psychology, from around 1800 till 1950.
Prior to the establishment of the first chair of psychology in Uppsala 1948, the discipline was above all a part of the philosophical discipline. For psychology to become a science of its own, it was crucial to obtain a position among the empirical sciences. It thus had to distance itself from philosophy, and in particular from metaphysics. In that respect the concept of will, thinking and emotion posed a problem. On the one hand, these concepts seamed necessary for a science of the psyche but on the other, they were traditionally associated with philosophy and especially with metaphysics.
From around 1900, the concept of will underwent an empirisation process in which it distanced itself from the metaphysical content of meaning. The idea of thinking, emotion and will as faculties was criticised and replaced by a way of speaking of them in terms of single acts, able to be analysed in a more empirical manner. This change was in accordance with the new demand on empiricism. Within psychology, however, practicians of the trade still spoke in terms of will, thinking and emotion, as well as of classical philosophical problems such as that of the free will, albeit in a more empirical manner.
A second, more profound change, occurred in the 1940s when the concepts of thinking, emotion and will, as well as the problem of the free will were sorted out from the psychological discourse. In light of their long time as an integral part of the psychological discourse it was a significant change that the human psyche was no longer to be discussed in terms of will, thinking and emotion. The most likely explanation of this change is that the institutional split between psychology and philosophy after 1948 also signified a separation between philosophical and empirical-psychological questions. After 1948 it was possible to pursue scientific studies in psychology without any knowledge of philosophy and hence, without an urge to pose philosophical questions.
Heckel, Matthew C. ""His spear through my side into Luther" Calvin's relationship to Luther's doctrine of the will /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online. Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textKristjansson, Kristjan. "Freedom as a moral concept." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2814.
Full textJu, Kang Hyo. "The extent of the atonement in the thought of John Davenant (1572-1641) in the context of the early modern era." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=237075.
Full textPreciado, Michael Patrick. "The compatibility of guidance control and reformed theology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=235593.
Full textHeadley, Alrick George. "The nature of the will in the writings of Arminius and Calvin a comparative study /." Portland, Or. : Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textCampos, Heber Carlos de. "The Arminian libertarian doctrines of freedom and responsibility evaluated according to biblical-reformed doctrine of sin." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGiese, Stephen D. "An examination of Jonathan Edwards' analysis of the Arminian objections to moral necessity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
Full textSperatos, Jason G. "God's omnipotence in freewill and process theism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
Full textHartman, Robert James. "The role of volition within a broadly-Swinburnian epistemology of faith." Deerfield, IL : Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.006-1619.
Full textRobson, David. "A study in metaphysics for free will : using models of causality, determinism and supervenience in the search for free will." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48781/.
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