RT Article
T1 Theology, Free Will, and the Skeptical Challenge from the Sciences
JF Theology and science
VO 18
IS 3
SP 391
OP 409
A1 Visala, Aku
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1727838998
AB Given how central free will and moral responsibility are for theology, Christian theologians should not remain at the sidelines when scientists and philosophers debate recent empirical results about human agency. In this article, the core notion of free will is identified with the agent's cognitive ability to exert control over his or her actions thereby making moral responsibility possible. Then three scientifically inspired arguments for free will skepticism are outlined: the argument from eliminativism, the argument from determinism and the argument from epiphenomenalism. The remainder of the article explores novel responses to these arguments and draws some theological implications from them.
K1 Free Will
K1 eliminativism
K1 Moral Responsibility
K1 Neuroscience
K1 Pluralism
K1 The Self
K1 Theological Anthropology
DO 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786218