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| Paradox of free Will | 1. Every action is either free or determined
2. If an action is determined then it is not a free action
3. If your action was not determined then it was not a free action
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No action of yours is free
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| Paradox of free will 2a | if an action of yours was determined then things outside of your control- the state of the universe at the first moment of time and the laws of nature guaranteed that you would perform that action
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| Paradox of free will 2b | if things outside of your control guaranteed that you would perform an action, then you were not able to refrain from performing that action
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| Paradox of free will 2c | If you were not able to refrain from performing an action, then you did not have a sufficient amount of control over that action ie it was not a free action
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| Paradox of free will 2 conclusion | if an action of yours was determined then it is not a free action
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| Paradox of free will 3a | of an action of yours was not determined, then there is no explanation for that action
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| Paradox of free will 3b | Paradox of free will 3b If there is no explanation for an action of yours, then that action was just a random occurrence
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| Paradox of free will 3c | If an action of yours was just a random occurrence, then you did not have a suffcient amount of control over that action. ie it was not a free action
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| Paradox of free will 3 conclusion | if an action of yours was not determined then it was not a free action
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| Paradox | an apparently cogent argument for an apparently false conclusion
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| Free action | an action that you have sufficient control over
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| determinism | the thesis that the state of the universe at the first moment of time with the laws of nature there is only one way the future could go
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| reasons to care about free will | without free will there is no responsibility.
people might think it's moral intrinsically valuable to make free choice
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| Darrows response to free will | there is no free will therefor the paradox of free will is correct
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| Compatibilism | The thesis that an action can be free and determined at the same time
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| Libertarianism | That some actions are free but none are determined
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| Can you be libertarian and compatible at the same time? | No, because .....
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| Walter stace | compatiblist
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| Campbell | libertarian
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| Stace's free action | acts whose immediate cause are psychological states in the agent
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| Stace's hard determinist free action | free action is determined
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| Campbell | free will only applies to inner acts,
moral freedom applies to inner acts
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| Three things for moral responsibility | sole authorship
must be an inner act
could have acted otherwise
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| implication for sole author ship | no one has control over their heredity and very little control over their environment
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| If an argument is fallacious, then | it has either an unreasonable premise or a weak inference
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| An intermediate conclusion of an argument, X: | A. is offered in support of another statement in X. and B. has another statement in X offered in support of it.
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| If a statement, S, of an argument, X, has something offered in support of it within X, then S cannot be: | a premise
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| If it is not possible for an argument’s premises to be true and its main conclusion false, then that argument must be: | deductively valid
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| According to the Memory Criterion of personal identity, a person is numerically identical with: | memories
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| Frank Jackson’s thought experiment about Mary is offered in support of: | C. the possibility of a person knowing all the physical facts about color vision and not knowing what it’s like to see red.
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| If property dualism is true, then: | mental properties are non-physical/immatetial properties
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| According to the symmetry property of numerical identity: | if a=b the b=a
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| Which of the following is the main conclusion of the Duplication Objection? | the memory criterion is false
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| X and Y can be qualitatively identical even if X and Y are not numerically identical. | true
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| One and the same thing can be qualitatively different at different times. | true
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| if substance dualism is true, then the soul criterion is also true | true
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| When criticizing arguments for dualism, Paul Churchland is thereby arguing for the falsity of dualism | false
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| According to Cartesian Substance Dualism, souls and bodies can causally interact | true
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| The Memory Criterion implies that you must have one and the same brain over time in order to survive from one time to another | false
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| Paul Churchland rejects both substance dualism and property dualism | true
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| According to the Principle of Bivalence: | every statement is true or false
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| Which of the following sets of words contain premise-indicators? | since because for given that
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| An argument with reasonable premises is guaranteed to be cogent | false
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| fallacy of equivocation | when a word's meaning is misunderstood in an argument
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