Libertariánska sloboda a nereduktívna fyzikalistická koncepcia N. Murphyovej
Libertarian Free Will and Nonreductive Physicalism of N. Murphy

Summary/Abstract: Nancey Murphy affirms that an explanation of human action requires the change of paradigm from “atomistic” to “process” metaphysics. Humans can be understood as complex dynamical systems with different levels of complexity, where a new kind of causality (top-down) emerges. She suggests that the solution of the conflict between libertarian and compatibilist accounts of free will consist in the exclusion of the neurobiological (bottom-up) determinism. Even though all animals from the more simplest to most complex are to some degree free from the biological and environmental determinism, only humans with their ability to use sophisticated language and the concept of self, and with their capacity for self-transcendence can be really free and responsible agents. However this kind of freedom differs from the free will in libertarian sense.

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