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Free Will and Modern Science

Richard Swinburne

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780197264898

Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2013

DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264898.001.0001

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Feferman on Gödel and free will

Feferman on Gödel and free will

A response to Chapter 6

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(p.123) 7 Feferman on Gödel and free will
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Free Will and Modern Science
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J.R. LUCAS

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British Academy
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264898.003.0008

This chapter presents a response to Solomon Feferman's discussion in Chapter 6. Feferman is right to dismiss logical determinism perfunctorily, although it puzzled Aristotle and the mediaeval Schoolmen and many people still. Feferman also gives a careful account of the much-criticized Gödelian argument against mechanism. Like many other critics he highlights the assumption that any plausible mechanical model of the mind must be consistent. It is shown that both Feferman's Formalist-Mechanist Thesis I aand the general mechanist thesis are false.

Keywords:   logical determinism, Gödel, mechanism, mechanical model, mind

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