for instance, when we deal with one another in a legal and a moral setting, we think in terms of free will and responsibility.
举个例子,当我们在一套法律和道德系统中,与其他人相处时,我们会从自由意志和责任的角度进行思考
but still, let me quickly point out why you could resist the argument from free will to the existence of a soul.
但我还是要简短地指出,为什么你们会拒不认同,从自由意志的角度来论证灵魂的存在
suppose we think, "look, you can「t have free will and determinism.
让我们想想看,人不能既有自由意志又遵从决定论
chances are you believe in free will - i do too.
你大概是相信存在自由意志的吧——我也是。
one way some philosophers have tried to resolve this conflict is by pointing out that determinism and free will are not necessarily incompatible.
一些哲学家指出,决定论和自由意志并不一定是完全不相容的,以解决这二者之间的沖突。
after all if we don」t have free will then we「re not to blame for anything we do.
毕竟,如果我们没有自由意志,我们就不会为我们的任何行为受到谴责。
these experiments aren」t the first to examine how a belief in free will (or otherwise) affects our behaviour.
这些实验不是第一次检验自由意志(或别的)信念是如何影响我们行为的。
they have focused more on how beliefs in free will might affect our behaviour and whether, more generally, there might be some reason why we seem predisposed to think we have it.
他们更关注自由意志的信念如何影响我们的行为,以及更普遍的,这里面是否有些原因,为什么我们先验地认为我们是有自由意志的呢。
if that were the case then it would threaten free will on any definition by any philosopher.
如果这些成为事实,那么它对由任何哲学家以任何方式定义的自由意志产生威胁。
this is a time-honored argument for the existence of a god who created human beings in his image and imbued them with a moral sense, as well as the free will to follow, or ignore, it.
这是一个关于上帝存在与否的历史悠久的争论,传说上帝凭想象创造了人类,然后给人类注入了道德意识,也作为一种遵循或忽视的自由意志放在那儿。
in the book he sets out and defines some of the perennial problems of philosophy, including the problem of evil, free will and determinism, the nature of justice and of virtue.
在这本着作中,他对一些哲学里常年不衰的问题进行阐述并给出了自己的定义,包括罪恶、自由意志和决定论,正义和美德的性质等问题。
classical compatiblists argue that we have free will if we have the power and ability to do things that we want to do.
经典的相容论者认为,如果我们有权力和能力去做我们想做的事,我们就有自由意志。
and yet despite this, the issue of free will in psychiatry seems almost completely neglected outside of forensics.
然而,尽管这样,精神病学中自由意志的问题似乎几乎完全被忽略出辩论话题之外。
according to this logic they say free will is an illusion.
按着这一逻辑,他们认为,自由意志只是一个假象。
for millennia the question of free will was the province of philosophers and theologians, but it actually turns on how the brain works.
对绝大多数人来说,对自由意志的怀疑是哲学家和理论家的事,但其实它事关大脑如何工作。