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The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such…

The philosopher Galen Strawson and the author Philip Pullman explore the point of view that entities such as human beings and subatomic particles have subjective experience. The former scholar explores this theory through philosophical argumentation, and the latter scholar explo…

The aim of the present thesis is to analyse how the narrative affects the various philosophical debates in Tristram Shandy and Jacques le fataliste. Contrary to what one expects from a philosophical novel, Sterne and Diderot do not impose upon the reader an authorial and authori…

Nursian occasionalism holds, on the one hand, that God is the creator of both cause and effect, and attaches them to each other on a self-imposed habitual pattern. On the other hand, Nursian occasionalism attributes theosophical, epistemological, and ethical functions to seconda…