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Does Free Will Require Alternative Possibilities?
2017
Abstract In this introductory study I discuss the notion of alternative possibilities and its relation to contemporary debates on free will and moral responsibility. I focus on two issues: whether Frankfurt-style cases refute the principle of alternative possibilities, and whether alternative possibilities are relevant to grounding free will and moral responsibility. With respect to the first issue, I consider three objections to Frankfurt-syle cases: the flicker strategy, the dilemma defense, and the objection from new dispositionalism. With respect to the second issue, I consider the debate between Alternative Possibilities views and Actual Sequence views, as framed by Carolina Sartorio i…
A Paradox in Compatibilist Accounts of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
1995
In this paper, it is argued that Frankfurt¿s sophisticated, ¿hierarchical¿ version of compatibilism faces the following paradox: a person with a highly disintegrated and incoherent value system will enjoy more freedom of the will than a person whose value system is more integrated and coherent. The reason is that the more (contrary) values a person embraces, the more likely will it be that s/he identifies with his or her first-order desires. The paradox, however, might also be extended to other versions of compatibilism.// En este artículo sostenemos que la versión refinada, ¿jerárquica¿ del compatibilismo, defendida por Harry Frankfurt se enfrenta a la siguiente paradoja: una persona con u…
Qué puede decir la neurociencia sobre el libre albedrío: cuestionando su metodología y la posibilidad de resolver el problema
2019
El antiguo problema de la libertad y el determinismo ha sido retomado en nuestros días por las neurociencias desde una perspectiva naturalista. Son muchos los problemas metodológicos y conceptuales a los que se enfrentan los investigadores al tratar de resolver científicamente la pregunta por la existencia del libre albedrío. Nuestro objetivo será someter a crítica uno de los presupuestos de estas investigaciones, la posibilidad de cuantificar la libertad como un hecho. Para ello expondremos en primer lugar las dificultades relativas a esta pretensión. Tras ello estableceremos cuáles son las condiciones de posibilidad de la libertad en aras de someter a crítica las perspectivas psicológica …
Logos, Pathos and Ethos in Ackroyd's Plato's Papers via an Interdisciplinary Psycho-philosophical Approach
2014
Abstract The present moral crisis of humanity will be closely considered in Ackroyd's Plato's Papers via Riemann's Theorem of Earth Mapping, Kelly's Personal Construct theory and Plato's Idea of the Third Man with a view to showing that only the generally assumed relationship between logos and ethos could rescue the mentality of the entire world and retrieve temporality and morality. For this approach to be successfully turned to good account the Aristotelian concepts of Logos (the thinking part of the intellect) mediating with Pathos (the feeling self) through the actions of his acting self, the personal Ethos, will be employed in relation to Ackroyd's character, Plato, the philosopher-ora…
Disinformation in Facebook Ads in the 2019 Spanish General Election Campaigns
2021
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Journalists’ Associations as Political Instruments in Central and Eastern Europe
2017
This editorial provides the overall context for the five cases—three national and two international—covered in this thematic issue. While the cases are from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), they highlight fundamental questions of journalism everywhere, including contradictions between freedom and control, professionalism and politics, individual and collective. The associations of journalists serve as very useful platforms to study these questions, especially at historical turning points when the whole political system changed, as happened twice in CEE after World War II.
Intricate decision making : ambivalences and barriers when fulfilling an advance directive
2016
Lars Schröder,1 Gerhard Homme,1,2 Stephan Sahm3,4 1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Center of Integrated Oncology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, 2Institute of Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Informatics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 3Department of Gastroenterology and Oncology, Ketteler Hospital, Offenbach, 4Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Background: Despite a recent statutory ruling stating the binding nature of advance directives (ADs), only a minority of the population has signed one. Yet, a majority deem it of utmost importance to ensure their wishes are followed through in case they are …
IL FATTORE IDROSTATICO
2007
La pressione idrostatica di un fluido è l’aumento della pressione in profondità rispetto a quella di superficie. Nelle arterie e vene cerebrali la pressione idrostatica del sangue se soggetta a continue oscillazioni può danneggiare il sistema capillare interposto e incidere negativamente sugli scambi di ossigeno e altre sostanze con il tessuto nervoso circostante. Il controllo vasomotorio del sistema nervoso autonomo è inefficace determinando una contrazione lenta e duratura nel tempo a livello delle arteriole di medio e piccolo calibro. Esiste perciò un importante fattore di bilanciamento della pressione sanguigna a livello cranico in grado di contenere la pressione idrostatica eccessiva: …
Beyond free will : The embodied emergence of conscious agency
2019
Is it possible to reconcile the concept of conscious agency with the view that humans are biological creatures subject to material causality? The problem of conscious agency is complicated by the tendency to attribute autonomous powers of control to conscious processes. In this paper, we offer an embodied process model of conscious agency. We begin with the concept of embodied emergence – the idea that psychological processes are higher-order biological processes, albeit ones that exhibit emergent properties. Although consciousness, experience, and representation are emergent properties of higher-order biological organisms, the capacity for hierarchical regulation is a property of all livin…
The impact of whole blood processing and freezing conditions on the quality of therapeutic plasma prepared from whole blood
2014
Background The quality of whole blood (WB)-derived plasma preparations has been the subject of several studies, but there has been a lack of robust, comparative data for the different methods of processing and freezing. Study Design and Methods Six WB-derived plasma units were pooled and split (n = 16) and frozen within either 8 or 24 hours after WB collection, stored at 4°C or at room temperature (RT), and then frozen either slowly at −20°C or rapidly to below −30°C. Plasma units were tested for fibrinogen, Factor (F)V, FVII, FVIII, FXI, and von Willebrand factor (VWF), protein C (PC), protein S (PS) activity and free PS, prothrombin time, and partial thromboplastin time. Results FVIII was…