Degrees of freedom.
Human freedom is in tension with nomological determinism and with statistical determinism. The goal of this paper is to answer both challenges. Four contributions are made to the free-will debate. First, we propose a classification of scientific theories based on how much freedom they allow. We take...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 11; pp. 10207 - 10236 |
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