Sökning: "Elin Wengelin Grantén"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Elin Wengelin Grantén.

1. 1. No Fixed past : A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument

   Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Författare :Elin Wengelin Grantén; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Determinism; kompatibilism; fri vilja; konsekvensargumentet;

   Sammanfattning : Carl Hoeferʼs “freedom from the inside out” is a compatibilist account of freedom that claims that we can have a robust kind of freedom even if the world is deterministic. The key insight is that determinism belongs in tenseless B-series time in the block universe, not in our everyday notions of the world where time is experienced in a tensed way with a past, a present, and a future, where the past is viewed as fixed and the future as open. LÄS MER

3. 2. En Darwinistisk reduktionism

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Författare :Elin Wengelin Grantén; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Alex Rosenberg; reduktionism; fysikalism; biologins filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : Alex Rosenbergʼs Darwinian reductionism is a more recent form of reductionism that aims at settling the dispute between reductionists and antireductionists in philosophy of biology. The idea is that the principle of natural selection can be viewed as a physico-chemical law that can ground biology in physics and chemistry, and hence make reductionism possible despite issues such as multiple realizability and downward causation. LÄS MER