A Scientific Free-Will: In Oppostion To Deterministic Free-Will
This is a review of the points covered in this paper: Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates by Björn Brembs. Thanks...
View ArticleOntological Determinism, Epistemological Indeterminism, Laplace’s Demon
[This is part of a set: Thinking] What follows is putting aside any quantum stuff for the purposes of this point about the difference between ontological determinism and epistemological indeterminism....
View ArticleRe-running The Universe: Determinism, Indeterminism, Quantum Stuff
[This is part of a set: Thinking] The philosophical persuasiveness or either determinism or indeterminism has been made foggy by the success of quantum physics, in particular the apparent indeterminate...
View ArticleThe Confusing Philosophy of Free-will
Over at Jerry Coyne’s place Brad asked for some links to the topic. Physicalist commenter offered some that included a link to this page at Stanford. Unfortuneately the ‘incompatibilst’ term there is...
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