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Descartes on Free Will and Moral Possibility
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:380-398 (2016)
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An early modern scholastic conception of moral possibility helps make sense of Descartes's own perplexing use of that concept and solves the exegetical puzzles surrounding Descartes's conflicting remarks about free will.Author's Profile
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