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Subjektiivisuuden periaate ja siveellisyys Hegelin oikeusfilosofiassa
1998
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…
Freedom and responsibility in Avicenna
2022
It is still a matter of some debate whether Avicenna grounds moral responsibility in a robust notion of free will. In this contribution, I will first delve into Avicenna’s theory of voluntary agency, arguing that he holds voluntary agency to be responsive to reasons but also thoroughly determined by the agent’s beliefs concerning the relevant goals, instruments, and qualifying circumstances. Since these beliefs in turn are caused, it seems that there is little room for a causally undetermined will in Avicenna’s theory. I will conclude by considering the question of whether Avicenna is some kind of compatibilist concerning the relation between determinism and responsibility. peerReviewed
Kirjallisuus ja kausaaliset operaattorit : mitä kirjallisuus opettaa moraalista?
2015
Tutkielman tavoitteena on puhua kausaalisen determinismin nojalla kirjallisuuden tiedollisen merkityksen puolesta filosofisia ajatuskokeita vastaan. Pyrkimyksenä on osoittaa, että kirjallisuus voi kertomuksen mittaan pystyttää sellaisen kausaalisten suhteiden välisten ketjun, että niiden välisten merkitysten ymmärtämisen myötä lukija tulee omaksuneeksi tunnekokemukseen perustuvia tietoja ja uskomuksia. Filosofiset ajatuskokeet eivät kykene tuottamaan tällaista kokemukseen perustuvaa vaikutusvoimaa. Argumenttini tämän kokemustiedon puolesta nojaa kausaalisen determinismin jyrkkään muotoon, jonka mukaan kokemukset ohittavat tietoisuuden ja vapaan tahdon portinvartijat, ja ne tuntuvat affektei…
Elisabeth on Free Will, Preordination, and Philosophical Doubt
2021
Elisabeth is widely known as a critic of René Descartes' account of mind--body interaction and scholarly interpretations of her view on the will most often pose the question about the freedom of the will in relation to bodily impulses such as the passions. This chapter takes a different perspective and focuses on the problem of the compatibility of free will and providence, as it is discussed in a sequence of six letters that Elisabeth and Descartes wrote between September 1645 and January 1646. The chapter focuses on this specific metaphysical problem in order to ask what Elisabeth's remarks on the topic can tell about her general philosophical method as well as about her particular philos…
Vocational life : personal, communal and temporal structures
2023
AbstractThis paper offers a new philosophical account of vocations as deeply personal but at the same time also communal and generational forms of multimodal intending. It provides a reconstruction and a systematic development of Edmund Husserl’s scattered discussions on vocations. On these grounds, the paper argues that vocational life is a general human possibility and not determined by any set of material values, religious, epistemic or moral. Rather, vocations are distinguished from other complexes of intentional acts and attitudes by certain structural features of their core valuations and volitions.