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	Compatibilism - Theopedia
		Compatibilism is a theological term that deals with the topics of free will and predestination.
		Compatibilism, in contrast to Libertarian free will, teaches that people are free, but defines freedom differently.
		In other words, one will always choose what they want-- and what they want is determined by (and consistent with) their moral nature.
	www.theopedia.com /Compatibilism (473 words)

	CAUSAL COMPATIBILISM AND THE EXCLUSION PROBLEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Causal compatibilism claims that even though physics is causally closed, and even though mental properties are multiply realizable and hence are not identical to physical causal properties, mental properties are causal properties nonetheless.
		My version of causal compatibilism builds upon a general point about certain terms and concepts that is articulated, illustrated, and argued for by David Lewis (1973/1983): viz., that these terms and concepts often are partially governed by certain implicit, context relative, parameters.
		In particular, compatibilism explains why our ordinary intuitive attributions and presumptions of agency and mental causation, and the accompanying justification standards we rely upon in making such attributions and presumptions, operate in a way that is essentially orthogonal to the question of whether mental properties are fundamental force-generating properties.
	dingo.sbs.arizona.edu /~thorgan/papers/Causal.Compatibilism.htm (6999 words)

	Compatibilism and incompatibilism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On this account, the notion of free will seems to be just a conceptual confusion, that couldn't possibly exist, whether the universe was deterministic or not.
		Compatibilism, most famously championed by Hume, is a theory that suggests that free will and determinism are in fact compatible.
		In fact, it is even conceivable that a lack of belief in determinism could lead to 'bleak pessimism', or fatalism, since one could potentially believe that their actions did nothing to determine future events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compatibilism (1240 words)

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		Soft compatibilism is the view which asserts that, together with the existence of free will and its compatibility with determinism, whether an agent is the product of design is relevant to attributions of moral responsibility.
		According to hard compatibilism, not only might free agents be perfectly predictable, the victims of meta-control, and share responsibility for their actions, but such free agents might not even deserve blame or praise for these actions.
		Fatalism Flew concedes that hard compatibilism cannot guarantee that agents are not perfectly predictable but he is quick to emphasize that predictability does not imply fatalism: “But determinism only commits us to saying that it was in principle possible to predict whether or not he would try and what he would succeed in doing.
	people.wm.edu /~ktwerk/exculpation.doc (17509 words)

	Compathtml.doc
		Compatibilism is the thesis that an act may be both free and determined by previous events and the laws of nature.
		I argue that compatibilism is a tenable position when combined with either a weak account of laws, or a weak account of ability, or both.
		But compatibilism by itself does not force us to the divergent miracles defense, and it does not seem to me the most plausible thing to say about cases in which one has the ability to do differently than one does.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~john/PHILPAPERS/compat.htm (8961 words)

	Compatibilism
		The third stage involves various contemporary forms of compatibilism, forms that diverge from the classical variety and that emerged out of, or resonate with, at least one of the three contributions found in the second transitional stage.
		According one strand within classical compatibilism, freedom of the sort pertinent to moral evaluation is nothing more than an agent's ability to do what she wishes in the absence of impediments that would otherwise stand in her way.
		Hence, her compatibilism is open to refutation by incompatibilist arguments designed to show that determinism is incompatible with freedom involving alternative possibilities.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/compatibilism (15868 words)

	"Free Will and Responsibility" by John Byl
		Compatibilism, on the other hand, is a much wider form of determinism.
		Compatibilism implies that God, with his complete knowledge of all his creatures and their decisions, can fully predict all future states of the world.
		Hasker concludes that compatibilism is incompatible with moral responsibility (1983:36).
	www.the-highway.com /freewill_Byl.html (8120 words)

	Vincent Cheung @ RMIWEB » Blog Archive » Augustine and Compatibilism
		Compatibilism is the view that, although all human actions are caused by antecedent conditions, it is still appropriate to call some of them "free.";
		For this verse to support compatibilism, it must convey the idea that the brothers’ action was in some sense "free";; however, the verse tells us only about their intention — it says nothing about whether or not they were free, or whether or not the intention was free.
		As it is, the verse neither establishes nor refutes compatibilism.
	www.vincentcheung.com /2005/05/09/augustine-and-compatibilism (2596 words)

	Theological Compatibilism & Animation
		Due to its brevity, the animation only serves to present the conceptual framework of the philosophy and will retain the mystery and complexity of issues such as who is responsible for the animated characters’ actions and the ethical right of the artist to manipulate the medium.
		The short film is not an attempted defense or complete explanation of theological compatibilism; it is simply an investigation of the subject as a Christian philosophy.
		Also, the animation is not an attempted defense or complete explanation of theological compatibilism; it is simply an investigation of the subject as it is referenced from The Bible.
	plaza.ufl.edu /ngilder/thesis/index.htm (3066 words)

	Theological Compatibilism & Animation: Vessel of Wrath
		Compatibilism, also known as "soft determinism" and most famously championed by the philosopher David Hume, is a theory which holds that free will and determinism are compatible.
		Theological compatibilism, a framework that holds parallels to the basic tenants put forth by Hume, is a philosophy that has existed since the Old Testament of the Bible was written as can be demonstrated by various examples throughout it.
		The obvious difference between theological and secular compatibilism is that theological compatibilism places the determinative role within God and not the physical world.
	www.english.ufl.edu /imagetext/archives/v2_2/gilder (3855 words)

	Hard Determinism & Compatibilism
		Assuming the correctness of this concession, that leaves compatibilism and hard determinism as the only remaining choices in the free will debate.
		In this paper, I will argue that hard determinism turns out to be a form of compatibilism, and therefore, compatibilism is the only remaining position in the free will debate.
		It will emerge not only that hard determinism and compatibilism are identical at the practical level, but also that the key terms employed by the hard determinist have the same meaning as equivalent terms ("free," "morally responsible," and "retributive punishment") employed by the compatibilist.
	wwwlb.aub.edu.lb /~jk09/hard_determinism_and_compatibilism.htm (189 words)

	Open Theism and Libertarian Free Will
		But, compatibilism teaches that the will is only as free as its nature permits it to be free.
		Compatibilism, on the other hand, states that we cannot violate our own natures and that our will is part of our nature, and that our will is directly related to and affected by our nature which, the Bible says, is in pretty bad shape.
		Therefore, in compatibilism, if someone is a slave of sin, is dead, does not seek for God, is full of evil, and does not understand spiritual things, it makes sense to say that his choices are limited to the scope allowed by the description set forth in the Bible.
	www.carm.org /open/free_will.htm (1396 words)

	The Nature of Free Will by Peter Voss
		The last point raises a particularly tricky problem: many of the concepts involved in understanding compatibilism are extremely abstract and far removed from everyday experience; they requires complex conceptual models and substantial philosophical context.
		Something that considerably adds to the confusion in the compatibilism debate is the fact that the dominant connotation of "determinism" is not the opposite of what "indeterminism" primarily refers to.
		Quite contrary to the common fear that compatibilism undermines the concepts of moral and legal responsibility, it actually opens the door to a more definitive assessment: Whenever we could reasonably have foreseen that the consequences of our actions would be detrimental, then we are morally responsible.
	www.optimal.org /peter/freewill.htm (11509 words)

	Advanced Digital Animation
		The primary interest of compatibilism is understanding the two perspectives of occurrences, and this metaphor effectually represents that.
		I'm exploring methods of displaying the philosophy of Compatibilism and the general nature of the free will of man. The underlying framework of my interest is compatibilism and how it is found in the Biblical text.
		There are those both inside and outside the Church who will disagree with compatibilism, but the majority associate themselves with the term libertarianism -- also known as indeterminism, which states that the future is free, as are our choices.
	plaza.ufl.edu /ngilder/ada/advdigitalanimation.htm (1393 words)

	AskPhilosophers.org
		If compatibilism is true, then determinism is not incompatible with moral responsibility.
		Compatibilism might be true (i.e., determinism may be compatible with moral responsibility), and determinism may still be false.
		Compatibilism concerns only the compatibility of determinism and moral responsibility, not the truth of determinism.
	www.amherst.edu /askphilosophers/question/766 (291 words)

	Ira Singer: Freedom and Revision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This paper claims that compatibilism is typically presented as a description and defense of our ordinary beliefs and practices and emotions and attitudes connected with the terms "freedom, responsibility," and so on; and that, contrary to this compatibilist claim, libertarianism captures important aspects of those beliefs and practices and emotions and attitudes.
		That is, the compatibilist must admit that she engages in substantial conceptual revision; her account of freedom does not capture everything that ordinary people mean by "freedom," it does not capture everything that our culture has wanted from freedom, it does not amount to a criticism only of a few aethereal or mischief-making philosophers.
		Compatibilism typically impugns the meaningfulness of libertarianism; and this sort of criticism inclines us to think that libertarianism could not be a correct description of our ordinary conception of freedom, or of any aspect of it.
	www.concentric.net /~Isinger/research/freerev.html (2805 words)

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		Unlike Model-T compatibilism, this British Compatibilism (associated with the British Empiricists, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume) respects the principle of alternative possibilities, that is, one acted freely only if one had been able to do otherwise, viz., would have done otherwise had one so chosen.
		On this Hierarchical Compatibilism, conformity is not only a matter of behavior agreeing with the volitions one acts upon, but also that these volitions agree with the values, preferences or character of the agent.
		The critics of compatibilism are not silenced by this maneuver, and have recently launched powerful incompatibilist arguments in response.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/Kapitan/compatibilism.htm (3068 words)

	State of the Art: A Supplement to Compatibilism
		As with their treatment of a moderately reasons-responsive mechanism, controversy has begun to emerge around Fischer and Ravizza's externalist, and historical account of guidance control, an account that appeals to the subjective conditions involved in an agent's taking responsibility for the springs of her actions (See especially, Eshleman, 2001).
		Given that the theory of compatibilism that he advises attempts to build mostly from his work on the theory of action, it might be called the Action Theory Theory.
		A good deal more could be said in an effort to explain the sort of compatibilism Mele suggests, but one of the more provocative and distinctive element in his account is his strategic return to the austerity of the classical compatibilists.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/compatibilism/supplement.html (8321 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Metaphysics and Epistemology :: Hume's Compatibilism is False (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If I follow you (and, as usual, I am not sure that I do) I think you may be arguing that Hume's case for compatibilism was that since indeterminism was incompatible with free will, determinism must, therefore, be compatible with free will.
		It is, at most, an argument that our social life presupposes some form of compatibilism.
		Hume does not, I repeat, does not, argue that compatibilism is true because we rely on the predictability of others.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-3757.html (3595 words)

	AFTER COMPATIBILISM AND INCOMPATIBILISM
		The real problem of determinism has seemed to be that of accomodating ourselves to the frustration of certain attitudes and practices, at bottom certain desires.
		That is to say that both of Incompatibilism and Compatibilism are false.
		Incompatibilism and Compatibilism are answers to a question with a false presupposition, that we have but one conception of freedom or one important conception, and they themselves presuppose or assert that falsehood.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /inpc/4th-2001/Papers/Honderich.htm (5177 words)

	Free will : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		That is one possible view of what it is to be free; but according to the compatibilists, free will is simply a matter of having genuine options and opportunities for action, and being able to choose between them according to what one wants or thinks best.
		It may be said that dogs and other animals can be free agents, according to this basic account of compatibilism.
		Compatibilism has been refined in many ways, but this gives an idea of its basis.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/V014SECT1 (1153 words)

	Betterhumans - Free will/compatibilism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What do you (especially Abolitionist) think about compatibilism, the idea that the concept of free will still means something given a deterministic universe?
		One's academic beliefs and the way one lives their life do not necessarily have to be related.
		These issues disappear whhen you view the self as a theoretical construct that is distributed in space and time rather than existing at a particular point and moment.
	www.betterhumans.com /forums/thread/7534.aspx (1143 words)

	Vessel of Wrath: Theological Compatibilism and Animation
		It exhibits the unique relationship between a cartoonist and his drawings by illustrating unconnected, personal wills that are bound to the same actions.
		Chapter One builds on the Abstract and introduces the doctrine of theological compatibilism.
		The Conclusion is a short reflection on the project, and the Appendix has Biblical examples that highlight compatibilism.
	www.nathangilder.com /vow (222 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Metaphysics and Epistemology :: Tell me the logic of compatibilism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Compatibilists, YOU give ME the reasons for compatibilism, in plain language, and not appealing to authority (i.e.
		If you want to argue the definitions of free will and determinism and what they entail, then it is a different discussion than compatibilism.
		The fact that you talk about the logic of compatibilism you are committing yourself to using the definitions provided for all of the terms in the arguement.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-3740.html (989 words)

	compatibilism - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		compatibilism : FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=compatibilism (90 words)

	Larry Hauser's Mostly Modern Philosophical Glossary
		Since the government, according to Marxist theory, is essentially an instrument of class oppression, and the society which emerges in this final stage is classless, as this final state is approaches government will gradually wither away (compare:
		Compatibilism: Also known as "soft determinism" and most famously championed by Hume, this theory holds that free will and determinism are compatible.
		Properly understood, according to Hume, freedom is not an absolute ability to have chosen differently under exactly the same inner and outer circumstances.
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