'Plain' persons tend to accept that free will exists and is inconsistent with determinism, but this commonsense position is widely debunked by professional philosophers and cognitive scientists. David Hodgson defends a simple, robust account of the plain person's position on free will, and intends it to support equally robust views of personal responsibility for conduct
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In my experience, plain persons (here meaning persons who are neither philosophers or cognitive scientists) tend to accept something like a libertarian position on free will, namely that free will exists and is inconsistent with determinism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corresponding statistical predictions, randomness challenge, indeterministic free will, volitional causation, informal rationality, libertarian free will, personalistic explanations, conscious free will, mere randomness, plain person, gestalt experiences, randomness problem, particular gestalts, nine propositions, probability parameters, plausible reasoning, psi function, fifth proposition, agent causation, natural causation, quantum laws, conscious systems, target article, first premiss, conscious judgment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, David Hodgson, Oxford University Press, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Imprint Academic, Robert Kane, The Volitional Brain, Galen Strawson, Allen Lane, Cambridge University Press, Freedom Evolves, Neuroscience of Free Will, Times Literary Supplement New!
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In my experience, plain persons (here meaning persons who are neither philosophers or cognitive scientists) tend to accept something like a libertarian position on free will, namely that free will exists and is inconsistent with determinism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corresponding statistical predictions, randomness challenge, indeterministic free will, volitional causation, informal rationality, libertarian free will, personalistic explanations, conscious free will, mere randomness, plain person, gestalt experiences, randomness problem, particular gestalts, nine propositions, probability parameters, plausible reasoning, psi function, fifth proposition, agent causation, natural causation, quantum laws, conscious systems, target article, first premiss, conscious judgment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, David Hodgson, Oxford University Press, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Imprint Academic, Robert Kane, The Volitional Brain, Galen Strawson, Allen Lane, Cambridge University Press, Freedom Evolves, Neuroscience of Free Will, Times Literary Supplement New!
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- The Volitional Brain : Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will by Anthony Freeman on 6 pages
- Free Will (Blackwell Readings in Philosophy) by Robert Kane on 4 pages
- Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett on page 19, page 32, and page 58
- The Significance of Free Will by Robert Kane in Front Matter, page 19, and page 52
- Rationality in Action (Jean Nicod Lectures) by John R. Searle on page 19, and page 46
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