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Peter van Inwagen
Researcher at University of Notre Dame
Publications - 99
Citations - 4048
Peter van Inwagen is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Free will & Determinism. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 97 publications receiving 3824 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter van Inwagen include Syracuse University.
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An Essay on Free Will
TL;DR: In this paper, the author defends the thesis that free will is incompatible with determinism and argues that determinism is not necessary for moral responsibility, and concludes that such determinism should be rejected.
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The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism
TL;DR: In this article, the author argues that free will entails determinism, and, being itself a consistent thesis, is a fortiori compatible with determinism. But there is a great deal of confusion in the argument, and exposing this confusion would require a lengthy discussion of many fine points in the theory of agency.
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The Problem of Evil
TL;DR: The Gifford Lecture as discussed by the authors is the edited text of the Wilde Lectures from 2000, which were in turn an expanded version of the F.D.Maurice Lectures at the University of London from 1999.