Free WillGary Watson The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work. |
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Page 154
... prediction from the design stance , one assumes there will be no malfunction , and predicts , as it were , from the blueprints alone . We generally adopt this stance when making predictions about the behaviour of mechanical objects ...
... prediction from the design stance , one assumes there will be no malfunction , and predicts , as it were , from the blueprints alone . We generally adopt this stance when making predictions about the behaviour of mechanical objects ...
Page 164
... predictions , eschewing any presuppositions of rationality , can put the lie to Intentional predictions when a system happens to fall short of rationality in its response , whether because of weakness of ' design ' , or physically ...
... predictions , eschewing any presuppositions of rationality , can put the lie to Intentional predictions when a system happens to fall short of rationality in its response , whether because of weakness of ' design ' , or physically ...
Page 172
... predict ( from any stance ) my own future.31 Another person might in principle have the data to make all such predictions , but he could not tell them all to me without of necessity falsifying the antecedents on which the prediction ...
... predict ( from any stance ) my own future.31 Another person might in principle have the data to make all such predictions , but he could not tell them all to me without of necessity falsifying the antecedents on which the prediction ...
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