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On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism
In: Language, Mind and the Reality / Panda, Ranjan (Ed.). New Delhi: Overseas Press, 2015. pp. 215-230. urn:nbn:hr:261:154856
Pećnjak, Davor

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Pećnjak, D. (2015). On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism. In R. Panda, (Ed.), Language, Mind and the Reality (pp. 215-230). New Delhi: Overseas Press. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:154856

Pećnjak, Davor. "On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism." Language, Mind and the Reality, edited by Ranjan Panda, Overseas Press, 2015, pp. 215-230. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:154856

Pećnjak, Davor. "On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism." In Language, Mind and the Reality, edited by Ranjan Panda, 215-230. New Delhi: Overseas Press, 2015. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:154856

Pećnjak, D. (2015) 'On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism' in Panda, R. (ed.) Language, Mind and the Reality New Delhi: Overseas Press, pp. 215-230. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:154856 (Accessed 21 April 2024)

Pećnjak D. On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism. In: R. Panda, ed. Language, Mind and the Reality. New Delhi: Overseas Press; 2015. Pp. 215-230. [cited 2024 April 21] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:154856

D. Pećnjak, "On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism", Language, Mind and the Reality, R. Panda, Ed. New Delhi: Overseas Press, 2015, pp. 215-230. [Online] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:154856

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Title (english)On Some Arguments Concerning Freedom and Determinism
AuthorDavor Pećnjak
EditorRanjan Panda
Author's institutionInstitute of Philosophy
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philosophy
Abstract (english)
In this article I review a few approaches that can lend a support for libertarian understanding of freedom of the will and freedom of the action. Namely, professor Pradhan claims, and I agree with these claims, that human beings are autonomous persons and that human beings are not a kind of machines. I construe autonomy as property of having freedom in a fundamental sense. First, I give incompatibilistic understanding of freedom and determinism. I show then that an ability to do otherwise and to be an autonomous proper source of an action can amount to the same thing. Argument involving Gödel's incompletness theorem, deployed by Lucas and Penrose to show that human beings are different from the machines, is used here in libertarian interpretation also. If processes which characterise our deliberations are non-computational, then they are not fully determined processes. In the last part of the article I tried to show that if we employ Hume's own notion of causality which claims that there is no necessity between cause and effect, then this could be a support for libertarian, rather than compatibilistic, conclusions about freedom of the will.
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Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Chapter in Book
Publication statusPublished
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Book titleLanguage, Mind and the Reality
Numberingpp. 215-230
ISBN978-93-83803-16-3
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:261:154856
Publication2015
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PublisherOverseas Press
Publishing placeNew Delhi
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