{"title":"Scotus on the possibility of a better world","authors":"G. Pini","doi":"10.1400/117197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/117197","url":null,"abstract":"Scotus gave an original answer to the standard question whether God can make the world better than He did. Whereas Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas had held that God can create other worlds, better than the actual one, but that the order of the actual world is the most fitting one, Scotus’s strategy is based on the claim that it makes no sense to compare alternative possible states of affairs as better or worse before God’s choice. He held that the order of the actual world is good not because it is the best among other alternative orders but because it is the order that God has made the object of His volition. Accordingly, any complaint about God’s failing to make things better than He did is not so much groundless as meaningless.","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"11 1","pages":"1000-1024"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81341308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rationality of Logos instead of the Dictatorship of Relativism","authors":"J. Życiński","doi":"10.1400/105185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/105185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"24 1","pages":"1000-1013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80204860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Libertà politica e diritti umani a vent'anni dalla caduta del muro di Berlino","authors":"S. Belardinelli, Nikolaus. Lobkowicz, Jeff Langan","doi":"10.1400/117203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/117203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"17 1","pages":"1000-1007"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87462158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Philautia in Aristotle's Ethics.","authors":"Héctor Zagal Arraguín","doi":"10.1400/117201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/117201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"20 1","pages":"1000-1009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87075879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tiempo, conciencia y libertad: consideraciones en torno a los experimentos de B. Libet y colaboradores","authors":"J. M. Giménez-Amaya, J. I. Murillo","doi":"10.1400/96700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/96700","url":null,"abstract":"Articulo sobre experimento acerca de las decisiones conscientes y sobre la relacion entre conciencia y tiempo","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"38 1","pages":"1000-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2008-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87522407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The problem of phenomenal consciousness and connectionist representationalism","authors":"Reena Cheruvalath","doi":"10.1400/91063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/91063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"16 1","pages":"1000-1009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74727736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mirror Roots of Social Cognition","authors":"Laura Sparaci, C. Sinigaglia","doi":"10.1400/96701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/96701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"4 1","pages":"1000-1024"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74860449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presentazione. Le basi sperimentali della coscienza e della libertà","authors":"Juan Andrés. Mercado","doi":"10.1400/96697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/96697","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"31 1","pages":"1000-1003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85804754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free Will and Decision Making in Aesthetic and Moral Judgments.","authors":"F. Tempia","doi":"10.1400/96699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/96699","url":null,"abstract":"Before simple voluntary movements, the activation of a specific region of the cerebral cortex precedes the conscious intention to move. This is currently considered as a demonstration that the decision to act is not free, but that the brain decides and thereafter generates the illusion of the will. Besides other criticisms, this type of movement is known to be mostly automatic. More complex decisions like aesthetic or moral judgments are a better paradigm to address the problem of the neural correlates for human choices and the freedom of the will. Aesthetic judgments are correlated with an activation of cerebral areas, which are connected to rational decision-making and are also involved also in other kinds of evaluations. Moreover, the timing of cortical activation shows that aesthetic judgment requires explicit and intentional reasoning. Moral judgments are correlated with the activation of cerebral areas, in which specific rational and motivational/emotional elements are processed. The subject performing such an evaluation is the conscious self, who proceeds without a predetermined time limit, until he finds a satisfactory decision. The conscious and explicit nature of the evaluation suggests that the final decision cannot be mechanistically determined by the physical laws governing brain and body function.","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"138 1","pages":"1000-1018"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85320823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La scelta razionale: un problema di filosofia della mente e della neuroscienza","authors":"J. Sanguineti","doi":"10.1400/96698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1400/96698","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41562,"journal":{"name":"Acta Philosophica","volume":"4 1","pages":"1000-1026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75181428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}