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| Moral responsibility requires free will: If a subject (A) does not perform action (B) freely, then (A) is NOT morally responsible for action (B) |
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Free will requires a "garden of forking paths",(Priniciple of Alternative Oppurtunities)
(S) Performs action (A) freely and responsibly only if (S) could have done otherwise than (A).
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| Principle of Alternative Possibilities |
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| PAP: A person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. |
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Sider's Definition of Determinism |
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Every event has a cause, and given the laws of nature, once the cause has occurred, the effect must occur.
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| An Incompatibilist position that accepts determinism while rejecting free will. |
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| A Compatablist theory that accepts freewill and determinism |
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What is a necessary condition, according to Soft Determinism for an agent to act freely? |
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(S) performs action (A) freely only if:
(A) is caused in the right way
I. Caused by persons beliefs and desires.
i. Objection: Hypnotized Person
II.Caused by B & D, and B & D is chosen freely.
ii. Objection: Circular Defintion
III.Caused by B & D, provided that the B & D was not compelled by another.
iii. Objection: Some compulsions (Mania, depression, OCD)
IV. Caused by B&D, provided that B&D flow from charachter of person.
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What is Substance Monism? (Materialism)
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I am my body, the relationship between me and my body is identity
(brain, cerebrum, etc.)
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| What is Substance Dualism? |
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I am a soul (or a soul + body); they are both identical, yet not causally related. I am the subject of mental states and my body is not.
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states that two or more objects or entities are identical (are one and the same entity), if they have all their properties in common.
no two objects have exactly the same properties
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What is the Transaction conception of causation?
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some property of the cause must be transmitted to the effect
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What is the Humean account of causation?
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Event 1 causes event 2
S1 causes S2
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| What does Physicalism claim about the mental and the physical? |
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| everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things. |
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| the view that humans are identical with certain animals |
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What is the relation that holds between human persons and animals.
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The Relation between persons and animals is identity
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True or False: does Animalism claim all human animals are person?
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True or False: does Animalism claim all persons are animals?
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