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- Title
- A Sermon delivered at Bethlem January 4, 1774 Before the Reverend Association of Litchfield County.
- Creator
- Day, Jeremiah
- Abstract/Description
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By Jeremiah Day. Mr. Day's Sermon On God's Power to refrain from sin,
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb3f2
- Subject Headings
- Free will and determinism, Sermons -- 1774
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- FREE WILL BELIEFS AND MORAL NORMS: DISENTANGLING FWB’S FROM MORAL BEHAVIORS.
- Creator
- Fennell, Eli, Vallacher, Robin, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
- Abstract/Description
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The nature and existence of free will and its relationship with moral reasoning and behavior have been debated by philosophers, theologians, and scientists for centuries, with no resolution in sight. More recently, proponents of “Experimental Philosophy” (Nichols, 2011) have sought to bypass the challenges of ontology by applying the tools and methods of the behavioral and mental sciences to the study of issues such as the structure and role of free will beliefs (FWBs) in prosocial and moral...
Show moreThe nature and existence of free will and its relationship with moral reasoning and behavior have been debated by philosophers, theologians, and scientists for centuries, with no resolution in sight. More recently, proponents of “Experimental Philosophy” (Nichols, 2011) have sought to bypass the challenges of ontology by applying the tools and methods of the behavioral and mental sciences to the study of issues such as the structure and role of free will beliefs (FWBs) in prosocial and moral reasoning and behavior. One of these approaches involves the use of experimental manipulation of FWBs via text passages, statements, articles, and videos endorsing or refuting free will, to measure its effects on moral attitudes and behaviors such as conformity, punishment, and cheating behaviors (e.g. Alquist et al., 2013; Shariff et al., 2014; Vohs & Schooler, 2008). The present study, a videoconference-based online study developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeks to shed further insight into the role of FWBs in moral behavior by combining experimental manipulations of FWBs and descriptive moral norms (moral behaviors we observe in the world around us). We manipulated FWBs by randomly assigning participants to read and contemplate 15 pro- or anti-free will statements, and manipulated moral norms by pairing participants with a research confederate pretending to be a second participant but randomly assigned to behave either honestly or dishonestly in a tracing task involving unsolvable shapes, which participants were led to believe they could earn a prize for solving.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2022
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014055
- Subject Headings
- Free will and determinism, Morals, Honesty
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interpretation of forced and unforced choice behavior.
- Creator
- Vail, Brian., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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The current study investigated the interpretation of an agent's actions under the influence of external forces. Participants viewed a series of videos of an agent making a varying series of decisions and forced behaviors and were asked to predict future behavior. Firstly, we found evidence that suggests that perceivers make inferences about an agent that once they have shown a preference toward an object, they will persist with those initial desires, despite, external forces leading them to a...
Show moreThe current study investigated the interpretation of an agent's actions under the influence of external forces. Participants viewed a series of videos of an agent making a varying series of decisions and forced behaviors and were asked to predict future behavior. Firstly, we found evidence that suggests that perceivers make inferences about an agent that once they have shown a preference toward an object, they will persist with those initial desires, despite, external forces leading them to a different object. Secondly, we found evidence that suggests that submitting to a coerced choice will be perceived as reflecting a conflicting combination of pragmatic behavioral choice (due to concession to external forces) and maintenance of original desires, or, simply put, perceivers infer multiple underlying intentions in others.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/3352877
- Subject Headings
- Free will and determination, Identity (Psychology), Self (Philosophy), Intentionality (Philosophy), Decision making, Psychological aspects, Philosophy of mind
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Elements and evidences of national decay : a lecture delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Bloomsbury, N.J., Aug. 7, 1862.
- Creator
- Van Dyke, Joseph S. (Joseph Smith) 1832-1915, McLaughlin Brothers
- Abstract/Description
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FAU copy edges trimmed to 22 cm. FAU copy has inscription: To the New Jersey Historical Society, from S. Alofsen. Jersey City, May 16. 1863.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb20f34
- Subject Headings
- Church and state -- United States -- 19th century, Free will and determinism -- Religious aspects, Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Format
- E-book