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Beta Blocking Beta Blocking
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Finessing Fixities Finessing Fixities
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Not Necessarily Not Necessarily
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6 The Consequence Argument Revisited
Get accessDaniel Speak (PhD UC Riverside) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. His areas of research include the metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology of free will; and topics in the philosophy of religion. He is the author of The Problem of Evil (Polity Press 2014) and co-editor with Kevin Timpe of Free Will and Theism (Oxford University Press 2016 ). His articles and chapters have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, The Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, Res Philosophica, The Routledge Companion to Free Will, and elsewhere.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
This article surveys the most recent versions of the Consequence Argument and objections to them. It considers objections made to some of the more well-known versions of the argument and recent attempts by defenders to answer these objections by offering reformulated versions of it. Many objections involve a principle van Inwagen called “Beta,” which is regarded by many as the most controversial assumption of the argument. Beta is a “transfer of powerlessness” principle, which states, roughly, that if you are powerless to change something “p” (e.g., the past or the laws of nature), then you are also powerless to change any of the logical consequences of “p.” The discussion considers various formulations of Beta as well as purported counterexamples to it and responses to these counterexamples by current defenders of the Consequence Argument.
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