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Preview: Philosophy Now Magazine January 2024

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Philosophy Now Magazine (December 2023/January 2024) – The new issue features Freewill versus Determinism – Are we free to choose? Or is Everything Fixed In Advance?; Materialism, Freedom and Ethics; Žižek on Cancel Culture; Spinoza, Hume and other Determinists, and more…

Spinoza & Other Determinists

Myint Zan compares different ways of denying free will.

What Is Free Will?

Grant Bartley wants to know what the problem with freedom is all about.

Criticising Strawson’s Compatibilism

Nurana Rajabova is wary of an attempt to dismiss determinism to keep free will.

Materialism, Freedom & Ethics

Philip Badger constructs a materialist ethical theory, with the help of John Rawls.

The Will Is Not Free: You Have To Earn It

Basil Gala on what it takes to free ourselves from our formative factors.