Free will, agency, and selfhood in Indian philosophy
"This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melanchthon, so often pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther, and more "Erasmian" than Lutheran in his thought, was, at least in his theological methods and views, not Erasmian at all, but in fa…
"We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we could do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the…
Freedom, fatalism, and foreknowledge
We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we could do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the …
Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself - not only the special human variety of agency, but also powers which can be accorded to animal agents. She offers a non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of org…
"Does free will exist? The question has fueled heated debates spanning from philosophy to psychology and religion. The answer has major implications, and the stakes are high. To put it in the simple terms that have come to dominate these debates, if we are free to make our own d…
Argues for an account of free will that takes seriously the evolutionary development of the key elements of free will. It emphasizes a biological understanding of free will that rejects the belief that free will belongs exclusively to humans and seeks to understand free will by …