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12 Cards in this Set
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FREE WILL
Indeterminism |
Belief that NOT ALL of our actions are determined by past events. Some are & some are not.
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HARD DETERMINISM
Incompatibilism NO FREE WILL |
Belief that EVERY event, even mental events, have a cause. Denies existence of free will. Human behav. reduced to mechanical events & if we could acquire all past events & facts about someone, we could predict their future acts from laws of nature.
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SOFT DETERMINISM
Compatibilism Determinism is true & free will exists. |
View that all phys. events are caused but mental processes are uncaused.Choices have no actual effect in external world. On this view, what we can control isn';t what happens in ext. world but how we think about it.Choices are often restricted...
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INDETERMINISM
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Denies determinism is true. Also that NOT ALL events, either mental or phys., are determined by past events. It's NOT TRUE that laws of nature & all past events fix all future events.
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INCOMPATIBILISM
If determinism is true then free will doesn't exist |
View about incosistency of free will & determinism. Not a view of whether free will or determinism exists. An incompatibilist can belief that free will exists even if they don't believe determinism is true.
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COMPATIBILISM
Soft determination |
View that determiniation is true but free will exists nevertheless. Two critics: hard determinists & incompatibilists.
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Libertarianism
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View that indeterminism rather than determinism is true, and as a result Free Will exists.
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HARD DETERMINISM
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Denies existence of free will. Determinism is true & as a result free wil DOESN'T exist. Hard Deters. are icompatibilists who're also determinists.
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DETERMINISM
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Is the claim that laws of nature and all past events fix all future events.
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INDETERMINISM
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Not true that laws of nature and all past events fix future events.
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HARD DETERMINISM:
Act is caused by God; God is the only cause; Totally free human choice gone. |
SOFT DETERMINATION:
Act NOT caused by God; God is primary cause; Humans are secondary cause; Humans free choice is compatible with sovereignty. |
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LIBERTARIANISM
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Free from physical determinism and other divorce forms of determinism. Belief that strict determinism and freedom are incompatible. Freedom seems to require indeterminism.
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