Classical free will theories

Question 1

What are the characteristics of Free Will

Answer 1

To be able to make free choices and you have a certain amount of control over your choices and actions.

Question 2

What are Mele’s three types of free will?

Answer 2

Regular: No one manipulated you into doing something.
Mid-grade: You have the ability to do otherwise
Premium: Immaterial soul.

Question 3

The garden of forking paths

Answer 3

The alternate possibilities about what we do. the ultimate source of action lies within us.

Question 4

Determinism

Answer 4

Absolutely everything is determined. All events are governed by deterministic laws of nature since the beginning of time.

Question 5

Deterministic laws of nature

Answer 5

Life can only unfold in one way like a straight line rather than a garden of forking paths.

Question 6

If ________ is true, then, given the laws of nature and the past, there is just one future/just one way things can go - only one way in which universe and all the things in it can evolve.

Answer 6

Determinism

Question 7

When is does a particular action count as being determined?

Answer 7

When the action inevitably follows the events that came before it.

Question 8

Determinism involves _____ necessity

Answer 8

Conditional, if these earlier determining conditions obtain, then the determined event will occur.

Question 9

If determinism is true, this does not preclude free will.

Answer 9

Compatibilism

Question 10

If determinism is true, this does preclude free will

Answer 10

Incompatibilism

Question 11

Responsibility and the freedom required is compatible with determinism

Answer 11

Semicompatibilism

Question 12

If determinism is true, this does preclude free will. We have free will and therefore determinism is false

Answer 12

Libertarianism

Question 13

If determinism is true, this does preclude free will. We do not have free will and determinism is true

Answer 13

Hard determinism

Question 14

We do not know if we have free will

Answer 14

Free will agnosticism

Question 15

argument for incompatibility

Answer 15

alternate choices are necessary for free will, and determinism doesn’t allow for alternate possibilities and therefore they are incompatible,

Question 16

Why do Compatibilism believe that people think free will and determinism are incompatible?

Answer 16

they have confused ideas about freedom and determinism

Question 17

What is freedom in compatibilism?

Answer 17

absence of constraints: to be free is (a) having the power or ability to do what we want to do or desire to do; and this requires (b) an absence from constraints (physical/psychological constraints, compulsion and coercion).

Question 18

what does the freedom to do otherwise mean incompatibilism?

Answer 18

an agent would have done otherwise if she had wanted to do otherwise (nothing would have stopped the agent).

Question 19

What is one challenge to compatibilist definitions of free will?

Answer 19

unconstrained freedom of choice is not enough. we need to be completely in control over what we want.

Question 20

What do compatibilists believe is the issue with deeper/indeterministic free will?

Answer 20

It is impossible and incoherent. the same past can not create a different future.

Question 21

What are the 5 beliefs compatibilists have about determinism?

Answer 21

1. Determinism is not constraint, coercion or compulsion
2. Causation is not a constraint
3. Determinism is not control by other agents
4. Determinism is not fatalism
5. Determinism is not a mechanism