Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, & Neil Levy, (eds.), "The Routledge Companion to Free Will."

Filip Grgić

doi:10.7202/1068160ar

Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, & Neil Levy, (eds.), "The Routledge Companion to Free Will."

Philosophy in Review ◽

10.7202/1068160ar ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 41-42

Author(s):

Filip Grgić

Keyword(s):

Free Will ◽

Neil Levy

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Conclusion

Naturally Free Action ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198789796.003.0008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Oisín Deery

Keyword(s):

Moral Responsibility ◽

Free Will ◽

Intelligent Agents ◽

Natural Kind ◽

Implicit Biases ◽

Free Actions ◽

Neil Levy ◽

Shed Light

This concluding chapter summarizes the central claims of the book. Additionally, it argues that the HPC natural-kind view about free actions has the resources to address various empirical threats to free will. For example, Neil Levy has argued that recent findings about how implicit biases affect actions threatens free will and moral responsibility. However, the natural-kind view defuses this threat, including Levy’s version of it. The chapter also shows how the natural-kind view can shed light on emerging questions about whether artificially intelligent agents might ever act freely or be responsible for their actions, and if so in what sense. Finally, the chapter sketches some findings indicating that folk thinking may actually assume something like the natural-kind view.

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The Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited by Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, and Neil Levy

Australasian Journal of Philosophy ◽

10.1080/00048402.2017.1384847 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 96 (3) ◽

pp. 626-627

Author(s):

Stephanie Rennick

Keyword(s):

Free Will ◽

Neil Levy

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When Mother Earth Rises Up

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000112 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 271-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Simona Sacchi ◽

Paolo Riva ◽

Marco Brambilla

Keyword(s):

Free Will ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

Mental States ◽

Disaster Victims ◽

Willingness To Help ◽

Mother Earth

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.

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