free will

Question 1

(free will) what is intentional agency?

Answer 1

a system interacts with its environments with a goal
1 has representational states - encodes systems beliefs about how things are
2 motivational states - encodes systems desires and goals

Question 2

free will - what is instrumental rationality ?

Answer 2

systems actions are led by its desires - given its beliefs which must be internally consistent

Question 3

what is intentionality ?

Answer 3

intentional states can rationalise certain actions- intentional actions are those that can be rationally assessed in the light of intentional states

Question 4

what is eliminative physicalism

Answer 4

a position against free will - that fundamental truths of reality are described through science and not free will

Question 5

what is determinism

Answer 5

a thesis that determines the future through the laws of nature

Question 6

what is the demon of la place

Answer 6

a super intelligent creature, that by the laws of determinism , could predict the future

Question 7

could free will be compatible with determinism?

Answer 7

compatiblists believe yes, incompatiblists believe no

Question 8

what are philisophical libertarians

Answer 8

incompatibalists - who believe that we are free because determinism is false

Question 9

what is the consequence argument?

Answer 9

an argument that free will is not compatible with determinism
1 no one has power over the facts of the future

Question 10

what is a compatiablist argument to whether free will is compatible with determinism

Answer 10

leeway compatiablism - believes that the consequence argument is wrong
AND
sourcehood compatibalism - free will does not require alternative possibilities
AND
Hierarchical compatibalism - first order vs second order desires
1. a regular desire, and a desire to have a desire