Freedom, Symmetry Breaking and Reflective Judgements. An Attempt at an Incompatibilist Account of Freedom

• Authors: Poręba Marcin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper free volitions are construed as a subclass of reflective judgements in the Kantian meaning, i.e. judgements not involving any fixed concepts but displaying a concept-like form. Judgements expressing volitions and issuing in action may be termed volitional judgements, therefore free volitions are construed as reflective volitional judgements. Due to an element of conceptual novelty and the fact that in a reflective judgement volition gets conceptually fixed out of an unstable equilibrium between different conceptualizations, free volitions thus construed seem to be apt candidates for causally undetermined events.

Keywords

EN

determinism; free will; freedom; incompatibilism; Kant; reflective judgement

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-75

Dates

published

2017-09-02

Contributors

author

Poręba Marcin

• Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26319/EIDOS-001-FREEDOM