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  • noun Plural form of compatibilist.

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  • Those philosophers who think there is a way to consistently maintain both (1) and (2) are called compatibilists about infallible foreknowledge and human free will.

    Foreknowledge and Free Will Zagzebski, Linda 2008

  • While there are some philosophers who assert that free will can exist in a deterministic materialistic world (they're called "compatibilists"), and some have argued that quantum indeterminacy may leave room for free will, the most parsimonious explanation for free will is that there is an immaterial component of the mind that is undetermined by matter.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • While there are some philosophers who assert that free will can exist in a deterministic materialistic world (they're called "compatibilists"), and some have argued that quantum indeterminacy may leave room for free will, the most parsimonious explanation for free will is that there is an immaterial component of the mind that is undetermined by matter.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • While there are some philosophers who assert that free will can exist in a deterministic materialistic world (they're called "compatibilists"), and some have argued that quantum indeterminacy may leave room for free will, the most parsimonious explanation for free will is that there is an immaterial component of the mind that is undetermined by matter.

    Evolution News & Views 2009

  • While there are some philosophers who assert that free will can exist in a deterministic materialistic world (they’re called "compatibilists"), and some have argued that quantum indeterminacy may leave room for free will, the most parsimonious explanation for free will is that there is an immaterial component of the mind that is undetermined by matter.

    2008 November - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • Reading between the lines, it sounds like all three are compatibilists of some stripe, report later seems to take for granted the traditional dichotomy, whereby an action can be a case of “free will or predetermined by the laws of nature” (emphasis mine).

    Pop Philosophy Watch 2009

  • What the classical compatibilists attempted to do by way of their conditional analysis was deny the truth of the second premise: If determinism is true, no one can do otherwise.

    Compatibilism McKenna, Michael 2009

  • The compatibilists 'main adversaries are incompatibilists, who deny the compatibility of free will and determinism.

    Compatibilism McKenna, Michael 2009

  • So the classical compatibilists analyzed any assertion that an agent could have done otherwise as a conditional assertion reporting what an agent would have done under certain counterfactual conditions.

    Compatibilism McKenna, Michael 2009

  • This, at least, is how compatibilists like Fischer and Ravizza would reason.

    Compatibilism McKenna, Michael 2009

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