Table of Contents
303 relations: A priori and a posteriori, A Treatise of Human Nature, Ability, Abstract and concrete, Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari, Action (philosophy), Advice (opinion), Age of Enlightenment, Agency (philosophy), Agency in Mormonism, Albert Einstein, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Alexander Rosenberg, Alien hand syndrome, Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Ancient Greek philosophy, Andrzej Nowak (psychologist), Animal, Anomalous monism, Anthropocentrism, Argument from free will, Aristotle, Arminianism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Artificial intelligence, Ash'arism, Augustine of Hippo, Āstika and nāstika, Baron d'Holbach, Baruch Spinoza, Behavioural sciences, Benjamin Libet, Bereitschaftspotential, Biological determinism, Biologist, Boethius, Buddhism, Buridan's ass, C. S. Lewis, Carl Ginet, Causa sui, Causal closure, Causality, Cerebral cortex, Chain of events, Chaos theory, Charvaka, Choice, Christian perfection, ... Expand index (253 more) »
- Action (philosophy)
- Philosophical problems
- Religious ethics
A priori and a posteriori
A priori ('from the earlier') and a posteriori ('from the later') are Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, justification, or argument by their reliance on experience.
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A Treatise of Human Nature
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.
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Ability
Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various actions. Free will and Ability are action (philosophy), Causality and concepts in ethics.
Abstract and concrete
In metaphysics, the distinction between abstract and concrete refers to a divide between two types of entities.
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Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari
Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari (translit; 874–936 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist of the Shafi'i school, exegete, reformer, and scholastic theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Ash'ari school of Islamic theology.
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Action (philosophy)
In philosophy, an action is an event that an agent performs for a purpose, that is, guided by the person's intention. Free will and action (philosophy) are concepts in metaphysics.
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Advice (opinion)
Advice (also called exhortation) is a form of relating personal or institutional opinions, belief systems, values, recommendations or guidance about certain situations relayed in some context to another person, group or party.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agency (philosophy)
Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. Free will and Agency (philosophy) are action (philosophy) and concepts in ethics.
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Agency in Mormonism
Agency (also referred to as free agency or moral agency), in the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), is "the privilege of choice which was introduced by God the Eternal Father to all of his spirit children in the premortal state".
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".
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Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias (translit; AD) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.
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Alexander Rosenberg
Alexander Rosenberg (who generally publishes as "Alex") is an American philosopher and novelist.
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Alien hand syndrome
Alien hand syndrome (AHS) or Dr.
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Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense
Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil.
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding.
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Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.
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Andrzej Nowak (psychologist)
Andrzej Nowak (born June 12, 1953, in Warsaw) is a Polish psychologist, one of the founders of dynamical social psychology.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Anomalous monism
Anomalous monism is a philosophical thesis about the mind–body relationship.
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Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity on the planet.
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Argument from free will
The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and that any conception of God that incorporates both properties is therefore inconceivable.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Arminianism
Arminianism is a movement of Protestantism initiated in the early 17th century, based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius and his historic supporters known as Remonstrants.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
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Ash'arism
Ash'arism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, a Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer (mujaddid), and scholastic theologian, in the 9th–10th century.
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Āstika and nāstika
Āstika (Sanskrit: आस्तिक; IAST: Āstika) and Nāstika (Sanskrit: नास्तिक; IAST: Nāstika) are concepts that have been used to classify the schools of Indian philosophy by modern scholars, as well as some Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts.
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Baron d'Holbach
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.
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Behavioural sciences
Behavioural sciences is a branch of science that explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioural interactions that occur between organisms in the natural world.
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Benjamin Libet
Benjamin Libet (April 12, 1916 – July 23, 2007) was an American neuroscientist who was a pioneer in the field of human consciousness.
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Bereitschaftspotential
In neurology, the Bereitschaftspotential or BP (German for "readiness potential"), also called the pre-motor potential or readiness potential (RP), is a measure of activity in the motor cortex and supplementary motor area of the brain leading up to voluntary muscle movement.
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Biological determinism
Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component of their physiology, generally at the expense of the role of the environment, whether in embryonic development or in learning.
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Biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology.
Boethius
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius (Latin: Boetius; 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buridan's ass
Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.
Carl Ginet
Carl Ginet (born 1932) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University.
Causa sui
Causa sui is a Latin term that denotes something that is generated within itself. Free will and Causa sui are concepts in metaphysics.
Causal closure
Physical causal closure is a metaphysical theory about the nature of causation in the physical realm with significant ramifications in the study of metaphysics and the mind. Free will and causal closure are Causality and concepts in metaphysics.
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Causality
Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause.
Cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.
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Chain of events
A chain of events is a number of actions and their effects that are contiguous and linked together that results in a particular outcome. Free will and chain of events are Causality and concepts in metaphysics.
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Chaos theory
Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics.
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Charvaka
Charvaka (चार्वाक; IAST: Cārvāka), also known as Lokāyata, is an ancient school of Indian materialism.
Choice
A choice is the range of different things from which a being can choose.
Christian perfection
Within many denominations of Christianity, Christian perfection is the theological concept of the process or the event of achieving spiritual maturity or perfection.
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Christian theology
Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice.
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Chrysippus
Chrysippus of Soli (Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, Chrysippos ho Soleus) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.
Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
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Cognitive robotics
Cognitive Robotics or Cognitive Technology is a subfield of robotics concerned with endowing a robot with intelligent behavior by providing it with a processing architecture that will allow it to learn and reason about how to behave in response to complex goals in a complex world.
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Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
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Compatibilism
Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent.
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Consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence.
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Corpus callosum
The corpus callosum (Latin for "tough body"), also callosal commissure, is a wide, thick nerve tract, consisting of a flat bundle of commissural fibers, beneath the cerebral cortex in the brain.
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Council of Trent
The Council of Trent (Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento), now in northern Italy, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
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Counterfactual thinking
Counterfactual thinking is a concept in psychology that involves the human tendency to create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened.
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Court
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.
Creatio ex nihilo
Creatio ex nihilo (Latin for "creation out of nothing") is the doctrine that matter is not eternal but had to be created by some divine creative act.
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Creator deity
A creator deity or creator god is a deity responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology.
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Culpability
In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction.
Cultural determinism
Cultural determinism is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels.
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist.
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Daniel Wegner
Daniel Merton Wegner (June 28, 1948 – July 5, 2013) was an American social psychologist.
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Darwinism
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
David Hume
David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.
David Lewis (philosopher)
David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher.
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De libero arbitrio voluntatis
De libero arbitrio voluntatis (On Free Choice of the Will), often shortened to De libero arbitrio, is a book by Augustine of Hippo which seeks to resolve the problem of evil in Christianity by asserting that free will is the cause of all suffering.
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Decision theory
Decision theory (or the theory of choice) is a branch of applied probability theory and analytic philosophy concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical consequences to the outcome.
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Deity
A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life.
Deliberation
Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options, for example prior to voting.
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Democritus
Democritus (Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people"; –) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.
Demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.
Derk Pereboom
Derk Pereboom (born 1957) is the Susan Linn Sage Professor in Philosophy and Ethics at Cornell University.
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Destiny
Destiny, sometimes also called fate, is a predetermined course of events.
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is a 2023 nonfiction book by American neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky concerning the neurological evidence for or against free will.
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Determinism
Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Free will and Determinism are Causality.
Deterministic system
In mathematics, computer science and physics, a deterministic system is a system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system.
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Dick Swaab
Dick Frans Swaab (born 17 December 1944) is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist (brain researcher).
Dictionnaire philosophique
The (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764.
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Divine providence in Judaism
Divine providence (השגחה פרטית Hashgochoh Protis or Hashgaha Peratit, lit. divine supervision of the individual) is discussed throughout rabbinic literature, by the classical Jewish philosophers, and by the tradition of Jewish mysticism.
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Dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells.
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics.
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Elbow Room (Dennett book)
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting is a 1984 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which Dennett discusses the philosophical issues of free will and determinism.
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Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole. Free will and emergence are concepts in metaphysics.
Emily Pronin
Emily Pronin is an American psychologist who specializes in human self-perception and decision making.
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Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure.
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Epictetus
Epictetus (Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; 50 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures.
Epiphenomenalism
Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem.
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Epistemological pluralism
Epistemological pluralism is a term used in philosophy, economics, and virtually any field of study to refer to different ways of knowing things, different epistemological methodologies for attaining a fuller description of a particular field.
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Epistle to the Ephesians
The Epistle to the Ephesians is the tenth book of the New Testament.
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Epistle to the Romans
The Epistle to the Romans is the sixth book in the New Testament, and the longest of the thirteen Pauline epistles.
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Event (philosophy)
In philosophy, events are objects in time or instantiations of properties in objects. Free will and event (philosophy) are concepts in metaphysics.
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Existence
Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing.
Existence of God
The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion. Free will and existence of God are philosophical problems.
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Experimental psychology
Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes.
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False dilemma
A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.
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Fatalism
Fatalism is a family of related philosophical doctrines that stress the subjugation of all events or actions to fate or destiny, and is commonly associated with the consequent attitude of resignation in the face of future events which are thought to be inevitable.
Free will theorem
The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that if we have a free will in the sense that our choices are not a function of the past, then, subject to certain assumptions, so must some elementary particles.
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Freedom Evolves
Freedom Evolves is a 2003 popular science and philosophy book by Daniel C. Dennett.
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Freedom of choice
Freedom of choice describes an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, unconstrained by external parties.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.
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Galen Strawson
Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley (12 March 168514 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).
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George Musser
George Musser (born 1965) is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine in New York and the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory and of Spooky Action at a Distance.
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God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
Hackett Publishing Company
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. is an academic publishing house located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Hallucination
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus that has the compelling sense of reality.
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Hans Helmut Kornhuber
Hans Helmut Kornhuber (24 February 1928 – 30 October 2009) was a German neurologist and neurophysiologist.
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Hard determinism
Hard determinism (or metaphysical determinism) is a view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and therefore that free will does not exist.
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Hard problem of consciousness
In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness, or subjective experience. Free will and hard problem of consciousness are philosophical problems.
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Hardware random number generator
In computing, a hardware random number generator (HRNG), true random number generator (TRNG), non-deterministic random bit generator (NRBG), or physical random number generator is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process capable of producing entropy (in other words, the device always has access to a physical entropy source), unlike the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG, a.k.a.
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Harry Austryn Wolfson
Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887 – September 19, 1974) was an American scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Center in the United States.
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Harry Frankfurt
Harry Gordon Frankfurt (May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023) was an American philosopher.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hindu philosophy
Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of Indian philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the religion of Hinduism during the iron and classical ages of India.
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History
History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
Human brain
The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system.
Idappaccayatā
Idappaccayatā (Pali, also idappaccayata; Sanskrit: idaṃpratyayatā) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "specific conditionality" or "this/that conditionality". Free will and Idappaccayatā are Causality and concepts in metaphysics.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
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Immanuel Missionary Church
The Immanuel Missionary Church (IMC) is a Methodist denomination within the conservative holiness movement.
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Incompatibilism
Incompatibilism is the view that the thesis of determinism is logically incompatible with the classical thesis of free will.
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Incompatible-properties argument
The incompatible-properties argument is the idea that no description of God is consistent with reality.
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Indeterminism
Indeterminism is the idea that events (or certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or are not caused deterministically.
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Infallibility
Infallibility refers to an inability to be wrong.
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Interactionism (philosophy of mind)
Interactionism or interactionist dualism is the theory in the philosophy of mind which holds that matter and mind are two distinct and independent substances that exert causal effects on one another.
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Interpretations of quantum mechanics
An interpretation of quantum mechanics is an attempt to explain how the mathematical theory of quantum mechanics might correspond to experienced reality.
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Introspection illusion
The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable.
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Intuition pump
An intuition pump is a type of thought experiment that leads the audience to a specific conclusion through intuition.
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Ishvara
Ishvara is a concept in Hinduism, with a wide range of meanings that depend on the era and the school of Hinduism.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Jacobus Arminius
Jacobus Arminius (Dutch: Jakob Hermanszoon; 10 October 1560 – 19 October 1609) was a Dutch Reformed minister and theologian during the Protestant Reformation period whose views became the basis of Arminianism and the Dutch Remonstrant movement.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
James Gleick
James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.
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Jewish thought
Jewish thought (מחשבת ישראל, Machshevet Yisrael, or machshavah), also known as Judaic thought or Hebraic thought, is a field of Jewish studies that deals with the products of Jewish thought and culture throughout the ages, and their historical development.
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Jim Jones
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978.
John Calvin
John Calvin (Jehan Cauvin; Jean Calvin; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
John Martin Fischer
John Martin Fischer (born December 26, 1952) is an American philosopher.
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John Wesley
John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.
Joshua M. Epstein
Joshua Morris Epstein is Professor of Epidemiology at the New York University College of Global Public Health.
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Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
The Journal of Integrative Neuroscience is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of neuroscience.
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Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
Karma
Karma (from कर्म,; italic) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences.
Karma in Buddhism
Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म, Pāli: kamma) is a Sanskrit term that literally means "action" or "doing".
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Karma in Hinduism
Karma is a concept of Hinduism which describes a system in which beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's (jivatman's) reincarnated lives, forming a cycle of rebirth.
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Laplace's demon
In the history of science, Laplace's demon was a notable published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814.
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Last Judgment
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
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Lüder Deecke
Lüder Deecke (born 22 June 1938) in Lohe-Rickelshof, Germany is a German Austrian neurologist, neuroscientist, teacher and physician whose scientific discoveries have influenced brain research and the treatment and rehabilitation of neurological disorders.
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Libertarianism (metaphysics)
Libertarianism is one of the main philosophical positions related to the problems of free will and determinism which are part of the larger domain of metaphysics.
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Locus of control
Locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they, as opposed to external forces (beyond their influence), have control over the outcome of events in their lives.
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Logical consequence
Logical consequence (also entailment) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that hold true when one statement logically follows from one or more statements.
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Logical determinism
Logical determinism is the view that a proposition about the future is either necessarily true, or its negation is necessarily true.
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Long-term depression
In neurophysiology, long-term depression (LTD) is an activity-dependent reduction in the efficacy of neuronal synapses lasting hours or longer following a long patterned stimulus.
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Luis de Molina
Luis de Molina (29 September 1535 – 12 October 1600) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, theologian and jurist follower of Second scholasticism of the School of Salamanca.
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Maimonides
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (10 November 1483– 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar.
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Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (translation), abbreviated as MMK, is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy.
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Meliorism
Meliorism (Latin melior, better) is the idea that progress is a real concept and that humans can interfere with natural processes in order to improve the world.
Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
Millisecond
A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second or 1000 microseconds.
Mind
The mind is what thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills, encompassing the totality of mental phenomena. Free will and mind are concepts in metaphysics.
Mind–body dualism
In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical,Hart, W. D. 1996. Free will and mind–body dualism are concepts in metaphysics.
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Mind–body problem
The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body. Free will and mind–body problem are philosophical problems.
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Miracles (book)
Miracles is a book written by C. S. Lewis, originally published in 1947 and revised in 1960.
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Mitzvah
In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word (מִצְוָה, mīṣvā, plural מִצְווֹת mīṣvōt; "commandment") refers to a commandment from God to be performed as a religious duty.
Molinism
Molinism, named after 16th-century Spanish Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina, is the thesis that God has middle knowledge (or scientia media): the knowledge of counterfactuals, particularly counterfactuals regarding human action.
Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence. Free will and Monism are philosophy of religion.
Monotheism
Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity. Free will and Monotheism are philosophy of religion.
Moral responsibility
In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations. Free will and moral responsibility are concepts in ethics and philosophy of life.
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Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Free will and Morality are concepts in ethics.
Motivation
Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior.
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna (Sanskrit: नागार्जुन/ Nāgārjuna) was an Indian monk and Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school.
Naturalism (philosophy)
In philosophy, naturalism is the idea that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe.
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Nature versus nurture
Nature versus nurture is a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance (nature) and the environmental conditions of their development (nurture).
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Nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
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Neural network (biology)
A neural network, also called a neuronal network, is an interconnected population of neurons (typically containing multiple neural circuits).
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Neuron
A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.
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Neuroscience of free will
The neuroscience of free will, a part of neurophilosophy, is the study of topics related to free will (volition and sense of agency) using neuroscience and the analysis of how findings from such studies may impact the free will debate.
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Newcomb's paradox
In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom is able to predict the future.
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Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics (Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια) is among Aristotle's best-known works on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim.
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Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
Norman Kretzmann
Norman J. Kretzmann (4 November 1928 – 1 August 1998) was a professor of philosophy at Cornell University who specialised in the history of medieval philosophy and the philosophy of religion.
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Noumenon
In philosophy, a noumenon (from νοούμενoν;: noumena) is knowledge posited as an object that exists independently of human sense. Free will and noumenon are concepts in metaphysics.
Nyaya
Nyāya (Sanskrit:न्यायः, IAST:'nyāyaḥ'), literally meaning "justice", "rules", "method" or "judgment", is one of the six orthodox (Āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy.
Omnipotence
Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power. Free will and Omnipotence are philosophy of religion.
Omniscience
Omniscience is the capacity to know everything.
On the Bondage of the Will
On the Bondage of the Will (De Servo Arbitrio, literally, "On Un-free Will", or "Concerning Bound Choice", or "The Enslaved Will") by Martin Luther argued that people can achieve salvation or redemption only through God, and could not choose between good and evil through their own willpower.
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On the Freedom of the Will
On the Freedom of the Will (Ueber die Freiheit des Willens) is an essay presented to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences in 1838 by Arthur Schopenhauer as a response to the academic question that they had posed: "Is it possible to demonstrate human free will from self-consciousness?" It is one of the constituent essays of his work Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik (The Two Basic Problems of Ethics).
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Panpsychism
In the philosophy of mind, panpsychism is the view that the mind or a mind-like aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.
Paradigm
In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.
Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.
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Penguin Group
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
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Personality disorder
Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.
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Persuasion
Persuasion or persuasion arts is an umbrella term for influence.
Peter van Inwagen
Peter van Inwagen (born September 21, 1942) is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
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Phenomenon
A phenomenon (phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event. Free will and phenomenon are concepts in metaphysics.
Philo
Philo of Alexandria (Phílōn; Yəḏīḏyāh), also called italics, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
Philosophical theory
A philosophical theory or philosophical positionDictionary of Theories, Jennifer Bothamley is a view that attempts to explain or account for a particular problem in philosophy.
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Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Philosophy of mind
The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.
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Physical property
A physical property is any property of a physical system that is measurable.
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Physicalism
In philosophy, physicalism is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy.
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Political freedom
Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies.
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Popper's three worlds
Popper's three worlds is a way of looking at reality, described by the British philosopher Karl Popper in a lecture given in August 1967. Free will and Popper's three worlds are concepts in metaphysics.
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Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality.
Praise
Praise as a form of social interaction expresses recognition, reassurance or admiration.
Pratītyasamutpāda
Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद, Pāli: paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key doctrine in Buddhism shared by all schools of Buddhism. Free will and Pratītyasamutpāda are Causality and concepts in metaphysics.
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Predestination
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.
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Predeterminism
Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.
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Prevenient grace
Prevenient grace (or preceding grace or enabling grace) is a Christian theological concept that refers to the grace of God in a person's life which precedes and prepares to conversion.
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Priming (psychology)
Priming is a concept in psychology to describe how exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.
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Principle of sufficient reason
The principle of sufficient reason states that everything must have a reason or a cause. Free will and principle of sufficient reason are Causality.
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Problem of evil
The problem of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God. Free will and problem of evil are philosophical problems.
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Problem of future contingents
Future contingent propositions (or simply, future contingents) are statements about states of affairs in the future that are contingent: neither necessarily true nor necessarily false. Free will and Problem of future contingents are philosophical problems.
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Problem of mental causation
The problem of mental causation is a conceptual issue in the philosophy of mind. Free will and problem of mental causation are Causality, concepts in metaphysics and philosophical problems.
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Prohibitionism
Prohibitionism is a legal philosophy and political theory often used in lobbying which holds that citizens will abstain from actions if the actions are typed as unlawful (i.e. prohibited) and the prohibitions are enforced by law enforcement.
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Property dualism
Property dualism describes a category of positions in the philosophy of mind which hold that, although the world is composed of just one kind of substance—the physical kind—there exist two distinct kinds of properties: physical properties and mental properties.
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Proposition
A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity.
Proprioception
Proprioception is the sense of self-movement, force, and body position.
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Prospection
In psychology, prospection is the generation and evaluation of mental representations of possible futures.
Psychological determinism
Psychological determinism is the view that psychological phenomena are determined by factors outside of a person's control.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Psychophysical parallelism
In the philosophy of mind, psychophysical parallelism (or simply parallelism) is the theory that mental and bodily events are perfectly coordinated, without any causal interaction between them.
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Qualia
In philosophy of mind, qualia (quale) are defined as instances of subjective, conscious experience. Free will and qualia are concepts in metaphysics.
Quantum indeterminacy
Quantum indeterminacy is the apparent necessary incompleteness in the description of a physical system, that has become one of the characteristics of the standard description of quantum physics.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Reason
Reason is the capacity of applying logic consciously by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.
Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
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Richard Holton
Richard Holton is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse.
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Robert Kane (philosopher)
Robert Hilary Kane (November 25, 1938 – April 20, 2024) was an American philosopher.
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Roy Baumeister
Roy Frederick Baumeister (born May 16, 1953) is an American social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality and sex differences, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, aggression, consciousness, and free will.
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Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap (18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.
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Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant.
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Sam Harris
Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host.
Samkhya
Samkhya or Sankhya (sāṃkhya) is a dualistic orthodox school of Hindu philosophy.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Scientific law
Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena. Free will and Scientific law are Causality.
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Sense of agency
The sense of agency (SoA), or sense of control, is the subjective awareness of initiating, executing, and controlling one's own volitional actions in the world.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shoals, Indiana
Shoals is a town in Center and Halbert townships and the county seat of Martin County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
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Soul
In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death. Free will and soul are concepts in metaphysics.
Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual.
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Stochastic
Stochastic refers to the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution.
Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
Stroke
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.
Substance abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others.
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Substance dependence
Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption of the drug.
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Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica, often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church.
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Superdeterminism
In quantum mechanics, superdeterminism is a loophole in Bell's theorem.
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Supervenience
In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts.
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Susanne Bobzien
Susanne Bobzien (born 1960) is a German-born philosopherWho'sWho in America 2012, 64th Edition whose research interests focus on philosophy of logic and language, determinism and freedom, and ancient philosophy.
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Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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Synapse
In the nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or to the target effector cell.
Synergism
In Christian theology, synergism is the belief that salvation involves some form of cooperation between divine grace and human freedom.
Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London.
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Telos
Telos is a term used by philosopher Aristotle to refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of human art. Free will and Telos are action (philosophy).
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Gospel Coalition
The Gospel Coalition (TGC) is a network of evangelical and Reformed churches.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The Philosophy of Freedom
The Philosophy of Freedom is the fundamental philosophical work of philosopher, Goethe scholar, and esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925).
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The World as Will and Representation
The World as Will and Representation (WWR; Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, WWV), sometimes translated as The World as Will and Idea, is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Theological determinism
Theological determinism is a form of predeterminism which states that all events that happen are pre-ordained, and/or predestined to happen, by one or more divine beings, or that they are destined to occur given the divine beings' omniscience.
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Theological noncognitivism
Theological noncognitivism is the non-theist position that religious language, particularly theological terminology such as 'God', is not intelligible or meaningful, and thus sentences like 'God exists' are cognitively meaningless.
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Theory of everything
A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory or master theory is a hypothetical, singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe.
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Theory of mind
In psychology, theory of mind refers to the capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them. Free will and theory of mind are concepts in metaphysics.
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Thing-in-itself
In Kantian philosophy, the thing-in-itself (Ding an sich) is the status of objects as they are, independent of representation and observation. Free will and thing-in-itself are concepts in metaphysics.
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (Aquino; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher.
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Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (7 May (O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher best known for his philosophical method, his theory of perception, and its wide implications on epistemology, and as the developer and defender of an agent-causal theory of free will.
Thomism
Thomism is the philosophical and theological school which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church.
Thought experiment
A thought experiment is a hypothetical situation in which a hypothesis, theory, or principle is laid out for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.
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Tic
A tic is a sudden and repetitive motor movement or vocalization that is not rhythmic and involves discrete muscle groups.
Tic disorder
Tic disorders are defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) based on type (motor or phonic) and duration of tics (sudden, rapid, nonrhythmic movements).
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Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome or Tourette's syndrome (abbreviated as TS or Tourette's) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in childhood or adolescence.
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Transcendental apperception
In philosophy, transcendental apperception is a term employed by Immanuel Kant and subsequent Kantian philosophers to designate that which makes experience possible.
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True Will
True Will is a foundational concept in Thelema, the philosophical and magical framework established by Aleister Crowley early in the 20th century.
Uncertainty principle
The uncertainty principle, also known as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics.
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Vaisheshika
Vaisheshika (IAST: Vaiśeṣika;; वैशेषिक) is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy from ancient India.
Vedanta
Vedanta (वेदान्त), also known as Uttara Mīmāṃsā, is one of the six orthodox (''āstika'') traditions of textual exegesis and Hindu philosophy.
Volition (psychology)
Volition, also known as will or conation, is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
Voluntarism (philosophy)
Voluntarism is "any metaphysical or psychological system that assigns to the will (Latin: voluntas) a more predominant role than that attributed to the intellect", – Britannica.com or equivalently "the doctrine that will is the basic factor, both in the universe and in human conduct".
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Will (philosophy)
Will, within philosophy, is a faculty of the mind. Free will and Will (philosophy) are action (philosophy) and concepts in metaphysics.
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Will to power
The will to power (der Wille zur Macht) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Free will and will to power are concepts in metaphysics.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine (known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
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William James
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.
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William of Ockham
William of Ockham or Occam (Gulielmus Occamus; 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and Catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.
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Yoga
Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).
See also
Action (philosophy)
- Ability
- Acting under a description
- Action (philosophy)
- Action theory (philosophy)
- Action-specific perception
- Active perception
- Affordance
- Agency (philosophy)
- Agent causation
- Causalism
- Common coding theory
- Enactivism
- Free will
- Humeanism
- Intentionality
- Oikeiôsis
- Potentiality and actuality
- Practical reason
- Seven stages of action
- Situation, task, action, result
- Telos
- Will (philosophy)
Philosophical problems
- Absolute generality
- Benacerraf's identification problem
- Bradley's regress
- Competing goods
- Demarcation problem
- Dilemmas
- Disagreement (epistemology)
- Eternity of the world
- Existence of God
- Frame problem
- Free will
- Free will in antiquity
- Frege's puzzles
- Gettier problem
- Hard problem of consciousness
- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- Importance
- Is–ought problem
- Linguistic relativity
- List of philosophical problems
- Meaning of life
- Mind–body problem
- Molyneux's problem
- Moral luck
- Plato's problem
- Predation problem
- Problem of evil
- Problem of future contingents
- Problem of induction
- Problem of mental causation
- Problem of other minds
- Problem of religious language
- Problem of time
- Problem of universals
- Regress argument (epistemology)
- Swamping problem
- Trolley problem
- Turtles all the way down
- Vertiginous question
- Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation
- Why is there anything at all?
Religious ethics
- Adyghe Xabze
- Aequiprobabilism
- Antinomianism
- Atheist's wager
- Baháʼí views on sin
- Buddhist ethics
- Charter for Compassion
- Christian ethics
- Compassion
- Compensationism
- Confucian ethics
- Confucianism
- Divine command theory
- Divine law
- Divine right of kings
- Equanimity
- Ethical dualism
- Ethical monotheism
- Ethical movement
- Ethics in religion
- Euthyphro dilemma
- Exclusivism
- Forgiveness
- Free will
- Hindu ethics
- Humility
- Islamic ethics
- Jewish ethics
- Judeo-Christian ethics
- Meekness
- Misotheism
- Morality and religion
- Neetham
- Ordinary and extraordinary care
- Orthopraxy
- Probabilism
- Religious values
- Religious views on torture
- Righteousness
- Sauma
- Sin
- Sophrosyne
- Supererogation
- Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration
- Wiccan Rede
- Wiccan morality
- Wickedness
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