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ISSN 1076-9005
Volume 25, 2018
Tracing the Trajectory of
Buddhist Free Will Theorizing
Katie Javanaud
Keble College, Oxford
This paper
documents the key trends and developments in the history of Buddhist
free will theorizing, indicating potential new avenues for research.
Part 1 traces the debate from its origins in the late 19th century to
the present day. Though scholarship remains divided as to whether a
Buddhist free will problem can even be formulated, this paper
contends that such skeptical arguments can be defeated. An important
aspect of Buddhist free will debates concerns the commensurability of
causal determinism and dependent origination: by evaluating their
similarities and differences it becomes clear that dependency
relations encompass, but are not limited to, causal relations.
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