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		<title>Dennett &#8211; Freedom Evolves (lecture)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am worried this answer will crater the discussion that continues on the previous thread, so I&#8217;m opening a new thread to discuss Dennett&#8217;s lecture on his book Freedom Evolves. I know it is sort of stupid to post about this when I haven&#8217;t read the book yet, but oh well. Consider this a post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocks have feelings too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I advanced the idea that rocks are free, if the compatibilists are correct. Although this suggestion was called &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; by the esteemed Jeff G, the three detractors[1] of my view mostly convinced me that it is a very useful way of illuminating the issue. According to compatibilism, humans act freely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will and Emergence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responsible agency and free will are not consistent either with determinism or indeterminism. This short statement is called the â€œMind argument.â€ It has two parts. First, determinism is incompatible with free will : &#8220;If determinism is true, then our acts are the consequences of the laws of nature and events in the remote past. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Libertarian Free Will reject Causal Determinism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, If youâ€™ve been around a while, you know that Iâ€™ve never had a philosophy lesson in my life, and that I am pretty ignorant on these sorts of things. But Iâ€™m trying to get better and Iâ€™ve recently discovered the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and am learning, but have some questions. So, Libertarian means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Animals have Free Will?</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/02/do-animals-have-free-will/502/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that long ago I was shocked to find out that Geoff J does not believe animals have free will. A bit later, I found out my brother (usually an advocate of libertarian free will) is not so sure when it comes to animals. The birth of a post. Let me begin by stating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kobayashi Maru</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/07/kobayashi-maru/413/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two long debates on the issues of free-will and determinism, Joshua summed up his response in this comment. His description gets to the heart of the matter in my opinion. At the end of the day, I think we are left with a fundamental problem on both sides and I think the problems are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actually, free will probably is free</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/07/actually-free-will-is-free/409/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like whenever the subject of free will comes up among religionists &#8212; especially Christian religionists &#8212; someone chimes in with some variation of this old chestnut: &#8220;Free will is not free!&#8221; (When Mormons use it they sometimes say &#8220;Free agency is not free&#8221; but the intent is the same.) I disagree. I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarianism Part Deux</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/07/libertarianism-part-deux/407/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/07/libertarianism-part-deux/407/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discussion on my last post veered into a highly technical philosophy of mind debate so I wanted to pick up the core issue again here. My take on the debate so far is that the Mormon compatibilists were left in an extremely tough spot. One of their main arguments was that we don&#8217;t understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give me libertarian free will or give me oblivion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I figured freedom would be a good subject for Independence Day here in the U.S. Here is the question of the day: Does the Plan of Salvation and restored gospel even make sense if humans do not have free will in the libertarian sense? Here is the answer for the day: No. For those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Veto&#8221; Free Will</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/01/veto-free-will/320/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/01/veto-free-will/320/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Edit: In this post I should have written that we generally live "as if" we were causally determined beings. Later discussions showed this mistake of mine confused a lot of people.] There was an interesting article in the New York Times this week called &#8220;Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Donâ€™t&#8221; (Hat tip [...]]]></description>
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