Theology, Free Will, and the Skeptical Challenge from the Sciences
Given how central free will and moral responsibility are for theology, Christian theologians should not remain at the sidelines when scientists and philosophers debate recent empirical results about human agency. In this article, the core notion of free will is identified with the agent's cogni...
| Published in: | Theology and science |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2020
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Theology and science
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 391-409 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Free Will
B Neuroscience B Pluralism B eliminativism B The Self B Moral Responsibility B Theological Anthropology |
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| Summary: | Given how central free will and moral responsibility are for theology, Christian theologians should not remain at the sidelines when scientists and philosophers debate recent empirical results about human agency. In this article, the core notion of free will is identified with the agent's cognitive ability to exert control over his or her actions thereby making moral responsibility possible. Then three scientifically inspired arguments for free will skepticism are outlined: the argument from eliminativism, the argument from determinism and the argument from epiphenomenalism. The remainder of the article explores novel responses to these arguments and draws some theological implications from them. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786218 |