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  2. Free will - Wikipedia

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    The puzzle of reconciling 'free will' with a deterministic universe is known as the problem of free will or sometimes referred to as the dilemma of determinism. [18] This dilemma leads to a moral dilemma as well: the question of how to assign responsibility for actions if they are caused entirely by past events. [19] [20]

  3. Thomas Nagel - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Nagel (/ ˈ n eɪ ɡ əl /; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University , [ 3 ] where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. [ 4 ]

  4. Moral luck - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Nagel has been criticized by Dana Nelkin for including causal moral luck as a separate category, since it appears largely redundant. It does not cover any cases that are not already included in constitutive and circumstantial luck, and seems to exist only for the purpose of bringing up the problem of free will.

  5. The Mind's I - Wikipedia

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    The book's chapters are each made up of a previously published work by authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alan Turing, Richard Dawkins, Raymond Smullyan, John Searle, Stanisław Lem, Thomas Nagel (as well as Hofstadter and Dennett themselves), each followed up by a commentary by Hofstadter and/or Dennett. Dennett and Hofstadter both support the ...

  6. Frankfurt cases - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, compatibilists (defenders of the compatibility of free will and causal determinism, like A. J. Ayer, Walter Terence Stace, and Daniel Dennett) reject premise two. On a compatibilist analysis, an agent could have done otherwise just in case the counterfactual conditional 'if the agent had wanted to do otherwise, then he would have ...

  7. Shedeur Sanders is 'going to be the No. 1 pick,' according to ...

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    In an appearance on "The Pacman Jones Show," the Hall of Famer and Colorado coach made it clear what he thinks the future holds for his son.

  8. Determinism - Wikipedia

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    He suggests free will is denied whether determinism is true or not. He says that if determinism is true, all actions are predicted and no one is assumed to be free; however, if determinism is false, all actions are presumed to be random and as such no one seems free because they have no part in controlling what happens.

  9. Here Are the Biggest 401(k) Mistakes Each Generation Is Making

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    Image source: Getty Images. Baby boomers: Not embracing the Roth 401(k) Baby boomers saw the first 401(k)s in 1978, and most have stuck with these traditional plans to the present day.