Exam #4 (Are We Free or Determined?) Flashcards
Claims that every event is determined by a preceding by a preceding cuass
Determinism
The ______ is the challenge of reconciling determinsism with our ideas about persinal freedom
Problem of Free Will
a. Determinism is true
b. Determinism and free will are incompatible
c. Humans cannot act freely
Hard Determinism
a. Determinisim is true
b. Determinism and free will are compatible
c. Humans sometimes act freely
Compatibilism (a.k.a. Soft Determinism)
a. Determinism is false
b. Determinism and free will are compatiable
c. Humans sometimes act freely
Libertarianism (a.k.a. Indeterminism)
________ shows us scienfitic evidence that some events are random and uncaused (at the quatum, subatomic level)
Quantum physics
Free actd are all cuased by desires or motives or by some sort of internal psychological states of the agent’s mind. Unfree acts are all cuased by physical forces or physical conditions outside the agent.
W. T. Stace “Compatibilism”
French Philisopher _______ and other Englighment thinkers beleived the discoveries of scienece were robust proof that every event was determined by preceding events and natural laws
Baron d’Holbach
William James argues that ________ is a feature of the universe that permits “alternative futures” and the possbility of freedom
Indeterminism
This idea claims that if determinism is true than every event is the result of 1) events in the past and 2) the laws of nature that rule those events
Consequence Argument, Libertarian usage
The theory of ______ which says that a free action is cuased by an agent and not wholly determined by previous events.
Agent Causation
Beings are sometimes the cuases of their own behavior
Richard Taylor
