Distance, anger, freedom: An account of the role of abstraction in compatibilist and incompatibilist intuitions

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 803-823

  Weigel, Chris ^a  

^a UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal Level Theory; Experimental Philosophy; Free Will; Psychological Distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955202208     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2011.562640     Document Type: Article

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