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Description of SituationsDeterminism and Possible Worlds

Description of Situations: Determinism and Possible Worlds [6.1 There is an apparent freedom of the will—Our actions presuppose free decisions—Is there a natural necessity in the world?—Feldman[aut] Feldman, R.,’s rejection of a contextualist solution to the problem of free will: determinism and scepticism—Wright[aut] Wright, C., on even-handedness and factivity—Contextualism at work: Lewis’[aut] Lewis, D., infallibilist view and Williams’[aut] Williams, M., concerns. 6.2 Aristotle’s[aut] Aristotle structural account of the actualization of potentialities in contrast with Aquinas’[aut] Aquinas, St. T., totalitarianism of the “divine intellect”—Is creativity at risk?—Our making in general as necessitated. 6.3 The question of possible worlds: Lewis’ modal realism—What does it mean for a possibility to be unactualized?—The lack of a hierarchy of importance among possibilia—Idea of interdependency of choices—Does it make sense to talk about alternatives to the actual world?—Infinite variations comprise both infinite actions and infinite reactions—Inoperability of a unique source of causation—The need for the right multiplicity, which nevertheless results in an abstract possibility.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Description of SituationsDeterminism and Possible Worlds

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
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978-3-030-00153-7
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41 –48
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10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4_6
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[6.1 There is an apparent freedom of the will—Our actions presuppose free decisions—Is there a natural necessity in the world?—Feldman[aut] Feldman, R.,’s rejection of a contextualist solution to the problem of free will: determinism and scepticism—Wright[aut] Wright, C., on even-handedness and factivity—Contextualism at work: Lewis’[aut] Lewis, D., infallibilist view and Williams’[aut] Williams, M., concerns. 6.2 Aristotle’s[aut] Aristotle structural account of the actualization of potentialities in contrast with Aquinas’[aut] Aquinas, St. T., totalitarianism of the “divine intellect”—Is creativity at risk?—Our making in general as necessitated. 6.3 The question of possible worlds: Lewis’ modal realism—What does it mean for a possibility to be unactualized?—The lack of a hierarchy of importance among possibilia—Idea of interdependency of choices—Does it make sense to talk about alternatives to the actual world?—Infinite variations comprise both infinite actions and infinite reactions—Inoperability of a unique source of causation—The need for the right multiplicity, which nevertheless results in an abstract possibility.]

Published: Oct 31, 2018

Keywords: Factivity; Free will; Infallibilism; Lewis; Modal realism; Scepticism

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