@inbook{e750b8685dae4a16999b227d076712f7,
title = "Determinism and Possible Worlds",
abstract = "6.1 There is an apparent freedom of the will—Our actions presuppose free decisions—Is there a natural necessity in the world?—Feldman{\textquoteright}s rejection of a contextualist solution to the problem of free will: determinism and scepticism—Wright on even-handedness and factivity—Contextualism at work: Lewis{\textquoteright} infallibilist view and Williams{\textquoteright} concerns. 6.2 Aristotle{\textquoteright}s structural account of the actualization of potentialities in contrast with Aquinas{\textquoteright} totalitarianism of the “divine intellect”—Is creativity at risk?—Our making in general as necessitated. 6.3 The question of possible worlds: Lewis{\textquoteright} modal realism—What does it mean for a possibility to be unactualized?—The lack of a hierarchy of importance among possibilia—Idea of interdependency of choices—Does it make sense to talk about alternatives to the actual world?—Infinite variations comprise both infinite actions and infinite reactions—Inoperability of a unique source of causation—The need for the right multiplicity, which nevertheless results in an abstract possibility.",
keywords = "Factivity, Free will, Infallibilism, Lewis, Modal realism, Scepticism",
author = "Nuno Venturinha",
note = "info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147240/PT# UID/FIL/00183/2013 ",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-00154-4_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-00153-7",
series = "SpringerBriefs in Philosophy",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "41--48",
editor = "Nuno Venturinha",
booktitle = "Description of Situations",
address = "Netherlands",
}