Free-Will in The Block Universe? Old and New Problems with Time Travels
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Soler Gil, Francisco José [1] ; Alfonseca, Manuel [2]
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[1] Universidad de Sevilla
Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, España
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[2] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, España
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- Localización: Philosophia: anuario de Filosofía, ISSN-e 2313-9528, ISSN 0328-9672, Vol. 76, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 85-101
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This paper discusses Carl Hoefer‘s thesis in his article "Freedom from the inside out": to make the block universe compatible with free-will, one must avoid presentist intuitions intuitively associated to free actions. We show a possible difficulty of this proposal: the assumption of the block universe can imply that certain free actions would be cross-linked in a way incompatible with freedom. This is shown in a graphical way often used in the discussion of freedom in the block universe, by means of a thought experiment with time machines. This difficulty does not depend on the real existence of those machines.
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