Psychology and Free-Will

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ID3373020
AuthorsAidan Elrington (corresponding author)
Year1937
Volume18
Issue205
Pages262-272
Publication date1937-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBlackfriars (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-2014 • E-ISSN: 2977-0580
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1741-2005.1937.tb00044.x
OpenAlexW1999492666
LanguageEN
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In the course of a long and interesting correspondence between William James and Shadworth H. Hodgson on the subject of free-will, the latter writes as follows: "Let us, as you say, have no more 'gnashing of the teeth over the freewill business'; let us agree to differ. The best of it is that we both believe in the reality of free-will, only that I think it can be reconciled with determinism, while you think indeterminism is required to make it conceivable."Although some fifty years have passed since these words were written discussion concerning the freedom of the will and determinism continues varied only in its mode of presentation. The same difficulties which confronted the writers just mentioned confront the psychologist of to-day. These difficulties arise in fact from differences of opinion concerning the meaning of free-will on the one hand and determinism on the other. At bottom the problems involved are speculative rather than empiric, and the controversy to which we have alluded was conducted rather on the former than on the latter plane

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