| Grant number: | 17/20532-8 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| Start date: | April 01, 2018 |
| End date: | May 31, 2021 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Philosophy - Metaphysics |
| Principal Investigator: | Marco Antonio Caron Ruffino |
| Grantee: | Pedro Merlussi |
| Host Institution: | Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (CLE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
Abstract This project deals with the problem of free will and determinism. The aim is to look at the conceptual relationship between dispositional accounts of laws of nature and the thesis that there is free will (and related concepts, such as moral responsibility and the ability to do otherwise in the same circumstances). Although the Humean account of laws has been recently criticised, compatibilism is still motivated by it. Here I propose an alternative to this scenario: dispositional libertarianism. This view is the combination of a dispositional account of laws together with the claim that agents are able to do otherwise from what they did. The results of this project should lead to a more plausible alternative to the prevailing Humean compatibilist view in contemporary analytic philosophy. | |
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