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2012

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Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility, Rick Repetti Apr 2012

Buddhist Hard Determinism: No Self, No Free Will, No Responsibility, Rick Repetti

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This is the third article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the doctrine of universal causation. The first article (“Earlier”) focused on the first publications on this issue in the 1970s, the “early period.” The second (“Paleo-compatibilism”) and the present articles examine key responses published in the last part of the Twentieth and the first part of the Twenty-first centuries, the “middle period.” The fourth article (“Recent”) examines responses published in the last few years, the “recent period.” Whereas early-period scholars endorsed a compatibilism between …


Buddhist Reductionism And Free Will: Paleo-Compatibilism, Rick Repetti Apr 2012

Buddhist Reductionism And Free Will: Paleo-Compatibilism, Rick Repetti

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This is the second article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the doctrine of universal causation. The first article focused on the first publications on this issue in the 1970s, the “early period”; the present article and the next examine key responses published in the last part of the Twentieth century and first part of the Twenty-first, the “middle period”; and the fourth article will examine responses published in the last few years. Whereas early-period scholars endorsed compatibilism, in the middle period the pendulum moved …


Pearson Studies Philosophies, Ethics Of Science, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2012

Pearson Studies Philosophies, Ethics Of Science, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Crane Studies, Teaches The Philosophy Of Life, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2012

Crane Studies, Teaches The Philosophy Of Life, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Justice In Context: Assessing Contextualism As An Approach To Justice, Michael Buckley Jan 2012

Justice In Context: Assessing Contextualism As An Approach To Justice, Michael Buckley

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Moral and political philosophers are increasingly using empirical data to inform their normative theories. This has sparked renewed interest into questions concerning the relationship between facts and principles. A recent attempt to frame these questions within a broader approach to normative theory comes from David Miller, who has on several occasions defended ‘contextualism’ as the best approach to justice. Miller argues that the context of distribution itself brings one or another political principle into play. This paper examines this claim. It considers several plausible strategies for carrying out Miller’s general project and argues that each strategy fails. Nevertheless, the author …