Metaphysics of Agent Libertarian Free Will Posted on July 5, 2008 Filed Under Free Will, Philosophy | 5 Comments I think it would be convenient for further discussion on the free will issue to lay out a bit of what I take to be the metaphysical requirements for currently defensible accounts of Libertarian Free Will. …
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Metaphysics of Agent Libertarian Free Will
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Language, Externalism and Meaning
http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/2008/07/03/language-externalism-and-meaning/Language, Externalism and Meaning Posted on July 3, 2008 Filed Under Philosophy | 10 Comments Tanasije has had this very interesting series on externalism and mathematics over at Brood Comb the past few weeks. His latest post got me thinking about an externalism similar to Putnam or Davidson and what that means to language. …
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Mormon Free Will Redux
http://www.libertypages.com/cgw/2008/07/02/mormon-free-will-redux/I’ve not posted on free will for a while. (My last main posts were on responsibility and foreknowledge, time and chance, and then Mele II) Over at New Cool Thang there was a discussion about free will that got me thinking about it again. So let me summarize some of the conclusions I’ve reached [...]…
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The Fortunes of the Dialectic
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Philosophy, et cetera
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A brood comb
http://broodsphilosophy.wordpress.comthough I just put a list of links to them as a sign of appreciation, respect (which turns into admiration in case of certain posts I’ve read on those blogs) and as a “thank you”. So, in no particular order: Siris, Splintered Mind, Mixing Memory, Mormon Metaphysics, DuckRabbit, Philosophy Sucks!, Soh DAN, The Ends of Thought… I better stop it, before I name so much of them that the word “favorite” looses any significance.
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Meta Coherence
http://geniusnz.blogspot.com/2008/06/meta-coherence.htmlAs a reflective agent, to truly believe something you must consider it to be epistemically superior to its negation. You must therefore hold that anyone who believes otherwise is ipso facto your epistemic inferior in this respect. clark makes the interesting comment 1. On fundamental issues I don’t think arguments are justified. 2. You say I should not believe when I don’t have sufficient justification. 3. Therefore I should not believe any of the fundamental issues in
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This is not a Meme!
http://broodsphilosophy.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/this-is-not...though I just put a list of links to them as a sign of appreciation, respect (which turns into admiration in case of certain posts I’ve read on those blogs) and as a “thank you”. So, in no particular order: Siris, Splintered Mind, Mixing Memory, Mormon Metaphysics, DuckRabbit, Philosophy Sucks!, Soh DAN, The Ends of Thought… I better stop it, before I name so much of them that the word “favorite” looses any significance.
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Inconsistent Thoughts
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Social Psychology Automata
http://factsandfactoranalysis.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/socia...’s, Kihlstrom’s writing is entertaining and provocative, and all have put some of their papers online; if you are interested in psychologists’ views on free will and mental causation (and these days everybody seems to be concerned with the issue), you might want to check. Now what is this all about? Conscious will … is an indication that we think we have caused an action, not a revelation of the causal sequence by which the action was
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Philosophy, et cetera
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