Free will and the moral vice explanation of hell's finality

Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Islamic Philosophy

According to a common view among Muslim philosophers, a moral agent has free will if and only if she is able to do an action when she wants to and is able to avoid it when she wants otherwise. Implicit in this view is the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP). On the other hand, according to this view, free will is dependent on requirements such as conception, judgement, tendency, decisi...

Moral psychology, vol. 4: free will and moral responsibility.

ISSN: 1354-6805 (Print) 1464-0619 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/pcnp20 Moral psychology, vol. 4: free will and moral responsibility David E.J. Linden To cite this article: David E.J. Linden (2015) Moral psychology, vol. 4: free will and moral responsibility, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20:5, 469-472, DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2015.1073470 To link to this article: http://d...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Consciousness, free will, and moral responsibility: Taking the folk seriously

In this paper, I offer evidence that folk views of free will and moral responsibility accord a central place to consciousness. In sections 2 and 3, I contrast action production via conscious states and processes with action in concordance with an agent's long-standing and endorsed motivations, values, and character traits. Results indicate that conscious action production is considered much mor...

Traditional and Experimental Approaches to Free Will and Moral Responsibility

claims, and less familiar with what has been said and argued? True, both compatibilist and incompatibilist philosophers have made claims about what ordinary people believe about free will and moral responsibility (for examples, see Nahmias et al. 2006, 29– 30), and such claims are best tested empirically. What is not clear is how much stock philosophers should put in such ordinary beliefs. Acco...