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No free theory choice from machine learning
Ravit Dotan argues that a No Free Lunch theorem (NFL) from machine learning shows epistemic values are insufficient for deciding the truth of...
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Free Choice in Modal Inquisitive Logic
This paper investigates inquisitive extensions of normal modal logic with an existential modal operator taken as primitive. The semantics of the...
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Free Choice, Free Judgment, and Free Appetite (Albert the Great, De homine I)
In his comprehensive treatise On Human Beings, Albert the Great discusses a large number of questions centring on the nature of humans. A fundamental...
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Theory Choice and Social Choice: Two Proposals to Escape from Arrovian Impossibility for ‘Large Scale’ Theory Choices Based on Kuhn’s Criteria
By applying Arrow’s impossibility theorem for social choice to scientific theory choice, Okasha concludes that there is no acceptable theory choice...
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Individual Choice and Collective Identities
This chapter examines the influence of individual agency on social structure. On the side of agency, choice is given a privileged position and the...
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The premortalist free will defense
As a response to the problem of evil, the free will defense proposes that evil might exist as a consequence of God’s endowing human beings with moral...
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No Such Thing as Free Speech? Performativity, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in the UK
The relationship between academic freedom and freedom of speech features prominently in public and political discussions concerning the role of...
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Free Choice (Bonaventure, Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum, Distinction 25, Single Article, Question 1)
In his commentary on the second book of the Sentences, Bonaventure discusses the nature of various creatures, including nonhuman animals. He provides...
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The Choice of Self
The chapter sheds light on the process of choosing oneself as part of modern ethics. This is described by Kierkegaard as the synthesis of opposites...
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Existential Choice: Husserl Meets Heller
In this paper, I develop a vindication of Agnes Heller’s conception of existential choice by drawing on Husserl’s manuscripts and lectures on ethics....
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Incorporating (variational) free energy models into mechanisms: the case of predictive processing under the free energy principle
The issue of the relationship between predictive processing (PP) and the free energy principle (FEP) remains a subject of debate and controversy...
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Consent and Behavioral Public Policies: A Social Choice Perspective
This paper explores the extent to which behavioral public policies can be both efficient and democratic by reflecting on the conditions under which...
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Feeding Infants: Choice-Specific Considerations, Parental Obligation, and Pragmatic Satisficing
Health institutions recommend that young infants be exclusively breastfed on demand, and it is widely held that parents who can breastfeed have an...
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Causality, determination and free will: towards an anscombean account of free action
Anscombe’s “Causality and Determination” is often cited in the contemporary free will debate, but rarely discussed in much detail. It’s main...
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Working Retirees? A Liberal Case for Retirement as Free Time
Retirement is often viewed as a reward for a working life. While many have reason to want a work-free retirement, not everyone does. Should working...
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Metrics in biodiversity conservation and the value-free ideal
This paper examines one aspect of the legacy of the Value-Free Ideal in conservation science: the view that measurements and metrics are value-free...
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Identity and Food Choice: You Are What You Eat?
We use Marya Schechtman’s Narrative Self-Constitution View to support the widespread idea that food can contribute to the construction and expression...
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Anselm’s Account of Free Will and Divine Freedom
This chapter offers an in-depth and authentic analysis of Anselm’s account of free will, with a particular focus on God’s free will as a simple...