Refuting Modern Psychological Claims against Free Will.
Daniel Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will argues against free will from a psychological-philosophical perspective. This paper refutes his arguments and demonstrates that complete determinism in human behavior is unprovable though not implausible. The paper proposes a theory of free will that ac...
| Publicado en: | Dialogue (00122246) Vol. 57; no. 2/3; pp. 145 - 152 |
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