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Freedom of the Mind: Buddhist Soft Compatibilism
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 70, Number 1, January 2020
- pp. 174-195
- 10.1353/pew.2020.0008
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Abstract:
Analysis of the skills of Buddhist meditation experts grounds a theory of mental freedom, stronger than libertarianism, that includes freedoms of the will, emotion, attention, perception, and all voluntary phenomena, and is compatible with various Western and Buddhist conceptions of causation and the self, but poses challenges for all forms of free will skepticism.