
Ep. 123 How Can God Interact with the Physical World? with Greg Ganssle
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
The Importance of Volition and Intentionality in the Pairing Problem
The pairing problem involves the idea of volition and intentionality. The term is used to describe a person acting for reasons in response to reasons. A substance view of causation holds that conscious agents like human beings or angels can initiate causal sequences without being one step in a causal chain. In other words, on this view, human beings are in some sense uncaused causes.
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