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Transcendentalne Argumenty Roberta Lockie’go przeciw determinizmowi
Robert Lockie’s Transcendental Arguments against Determinism

Author(s): Robert Koszkało
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Epistemology, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Robert Lockie; deontic internalism; self-determinism; determinism; freedom, transcendental arguments

Summary/Abstract: In the paper, I first discuss the main theses of R. Lockie’s epistemology, which is based on deontological internalism, doxastic anti-voluntarism and metaphysical externalism. Then I present his concept of freedom, understood in terms of self-determination, and point out a number of problems to which this concept leads. In the next section I attempt to show why his transcendental arguments for the existence of freedom from the determist critique are ineffective. One of the main conclusions of the analyzes is the metaphilosophical condition that must be met by a correct transcendental argument for a given philosophical thesis from the criticism of the opposite position.

  • Issue Year: 72/2024
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 447-463
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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