Samuel Clarke against the determinism of Anthony Collins

In this paper I intend to present some aspects of the opposition between Samuel Clarke and Anthony Collins concerning freewill. After considering some reasons on which Collins determinism is founded, I shall analyze how Clarke’s concept of agency grounds his criticisms of the materialism of modern p...

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Autor: Brandão, Rodrigo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/39425
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/39425
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Clarke
Collins
determinism
freewill
agency
causality.
determinismo
liberdade da vontade
causalidade.
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Sumario:In this paper I intend to present some aspects of the opposition between Samuel Clarke and Anthony Collins concerning freewill. After considering some reasons on which Collins determinism is founded, I shall analyze how Clarke’s concept of agency grounds his criticisms of the materialism of modern philosophy, mainly that of determinists such as Collins.