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Jan 5, 2017 · Abstract. In An Essay on Free Will, van Inwagen argued that the consequence argument is valid if and only if the Mind argument is. After McKay and Johnson (1996) demonstrated the invalidity of the consequence argument as formulated in The Essay, Finch and Warfield argued that this demonstration strengthened the libertarian’s position: while it was possible to reformulate the consequence ...
Nov 28, 2018 · In the rest of Part II, Alicia Finch's 'Revisiting the Mind Argument' offers new formulations of the 'consequence argument' for incompatibilism and the 'Mind argument' against libertarianism found in van Inwagen (1983), and Neal A. Tognazzini and John Martin Fischer's 'Incompatibilism and the Fixity of the Past' and Wesley H. Holliday's 'Freedom and Modality' together make up a 'Symposium on ...
Jan 5, 2017 · Abstract. In The Philosophy of Philosophy, Timothy Williamson wrote that Peter van Inwagen’s work is among the “liveliest, exactest, and most creative…of the final third of the 20th Century.”. This collection of original essays addresses some of the most important and interesting themes from van Inwagen’s work, with selected replies ...
Like van Inwagen we are libertarians and wish to avoid this conclusion. Unlike van Inwagen, however, we have a satisfactory response to the chal-lenge of the Mind argument. Our response, in brief, is to deny the sound-ness of both van Inwagen's Consequence argument and the Mind argument. After showing why both arguments are unsound, we will offer
Jun 18, 2013 · In more philosophical terms, a libertarian could claim that we have some kind of introspective access to, or direct experience of, our own freedom. And some prominent libertarians, like Reid, 1 Campbell 2 or O’Connor, 3 have indeed defended varieties of such a view. 4. But there are other answers on the market: some libertarians have claimed ...
- Jean-Baptiste Guillon
- guillon@phare.normalesup.org
- 2014
Jun 17, 2011 · Among challenges to libertarians, the Mind Argument has loomed large. Believing that this challenge cannot be met, Peter van Inwagen, a libertarian, concludes that free will is a mystery. Recently, the Mind Argument has drawn a number of criticisms. Here I seek to add to its woes. Quite apart from its other problems, I argue, the Mind Argument does a poor job of isolating the important concern ...
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Jun 12, 2023 · Abstract. We investigate two formal arguments familiar to free will scholars and central to the work of Peter van Inwagen: the consequence argument (CA) and the Mind argument (MA). While CA is an argument for the incompatibility of free will and determinism, the version of the Mind argument we consider argues for a tension between free will and ...
