Free-Will in The Block Universe? Old and New Problems with Time Travels

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...

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Autores principales: Soler Gil, Francisco José, Alfonseca, Manuel
Formato: Online
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/philosophia/article/view/1877
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Sumario: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.