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O pewnym eksperymencie myślowym przeciwko determinizmowi woli
A thought experiment against the determinism of the will

Author(s): Ryszard Philipp
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: philosophy of mind; determinism; free will; causal theory of mind; causal closure of the physical world; third-person view; predictability of human actions

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a thought experiment against the deterministic theory of conscious-ness (i.e. free will), which is a consequence of a naturalistic (materialist) and physicalist approach to the problem of consciousness, prevailing in contemporary philosophy of mind. The physicalist approach presupposes the possibility of third-person descriptions of human actions in physical terms, and a fortiori the predictability, in principle, of human behaviour. The experiment emphasizes some consequences of this approach, especially some logical problems to which it gives rise.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 84-92
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish
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