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The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis
In: Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Grgić, Filip; Pećnjak, Davor (Ed.). Cham: Springer, 2018. pp. 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99295-2_10
Kožnjak, Boris

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Kožnjak, B. (2018). The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis. In F. Grgić, (Ed.), D. Pećnjak, (Ed.), Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (pp. 131-154). Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99295-2_10

Kožnjak, Boris. "The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis." Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Filip Grgić, edited by Davor Pećnjak, Springer, 2018, pp. 131-154. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:958489

Kožnjak, Boris. "The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis." In Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Filip Grgić, edited by Davor Pećnjak, 131-154. Cham: Springer, 2018. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:958489

Kožnjak, B. (2018) 'The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis' in Grgić, F. (ed.), Pećnjak, D. (ed.) Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Cham: Springer, pp. 131-154. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:958489 (Accessed 21 April 2024)

Kožnjak B. The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis. In: F. Grgić, ed., D. Pećnjak, ed. Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Cham: Springer; 2018. Pp. 131-154. [cited 2024 April 21] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:958489

B. Kožnjak, "The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis", Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, F. Grgić and D. Pećnjak, Eds. Cham: Springer, 2018, pp. 131-154. [Online] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:958489

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Title (english)The Earliest Missionaries of ‘Quantum Free Will’: A Socio-Historical Analysis
AuthorBoris Kožnjak
EditorFilip Grgić
EditorDavor Pećnjak
Author's institutionInstitute of Philosophy
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Abstract (english)
The author tackles the problem of debates about free will from the sociohistorical perspective that is still largely missing from the literature on free will. In particular, he tests the hypothesis that the belief in free will correlates with one’s religiosity and specific political or worldview concerns by the case studies of the earliest missionaries of “quantum free will,” as he dubs Arthur Eddington in Britain and Arthur Compton in the United States. They were not only the earliest, but also the most distinguished physicists in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s arguing for the “liberation of free will” with the help of Heisenberg’s famous indeterminacy principle. By a detailed analysis of their own writings, but also of the public reception and perception of their work on free will in the English speaking world of the time, especially in light of the struggle between “regressive” and “progressive” political and ideological forces, the author argues for the existence not only of the strong intrinsic religious motivation and specific conservative worldview concerns behind their own work on free will, but also of the similar factors, only of the opposite sign, behind the fierce reaction on their libertarian solution to the problem of free will, which, as he sees it, has never in the history of human thought been a purely scholarly and rational, but in fact always also a heatedly debated ideological and political matter.
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Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Chapter in Book
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Book titleFree Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Numberingpp. 131-154
ISBN978-3-319-99294-5
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99295-2_10
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:261:958489
Publication2018
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