2009, Thémata. Revista de Filosofía, Número 41, pp. 474-81
Before we can take a position on questions concerning freedom, it seems interesting to evaluate the use we make in the ordinary language of expressions in which we apply the adjective 'free'. Ontological arguments against freedom would defend quite a difficult stance if it would be the case of a sensible use of this adjec-tive in an affirmative intention. That word seems to refer, sure in many different ways, to the capacity of some beings of moving 'by themselves', more than to the Kantian idea of freedom as the absolute origin of a causal series.