Organon F
Volume 26, February 2019, Issue 1, Pages 104–121
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article | Special issue on Causality, Free Will, and Divine Action
Elements of a Theory of Nonphysical Agents in the Physical World
Uwe Meixner
This paper shows that there is a quantum-physical and evolution-biological perspective for (libertarian) free will, and that the so-called scientific arguments against it are in reality metaphysical arguments and insufficient. The paper also develops the idea of a nonphysical organ of higher organisms: the Domindar (Detector of macroscopic indetermination, and restrictor).
Brain; chance; choice; consciousness; determinism; Domindar; indeterminism; nonphysical cause; quantum physics; principle of causal closure; principle of sufficient cause; subject of consciousness and of physical action.
Author
Uwe Meixner
Affiliation
University of Augsburg
Address
Department of Philosophy, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 10, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany
uwe.meixner@phil.uni-augsburg.de
Received
17 May 2018
Accepted
3 December 2018
Published online
22 January 2019
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Meixner, U. (2019). Elements of a Theory of Nonphysical Agents in the Physical World. Organon F, 26(1), 104–121. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26107
Chicago
Meixner, Uwe. 2019. "Elements of a Theory of Nonphysical Agents in the Physical World." Organon F 26 (1): 104–121. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26107
Harvard
Meixner, U. (2019). Elements of a Theory of Nonphysical Agents in the Physical World. Organon F, 26(1), pp. 104–121. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26107
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