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substance dualism |
the notion that mind and body consist of 2 different kinds of stuff, or substances |
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the divisibility argument |
bodies and minds must be different things because bodies can be divided into parts but minds cant |
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descartes's big problem |
if minds are not divisible into parts, and if bodys are, then minds and bodys do not have the same properties, therefore they are distinct and dualism is true |
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materialism (identity theory) |
the doctrine that every object and event in the world is physical |
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the interaction argument for materialism |
coci |
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causal determinism |
every event is completely determined to happen by prior events and laws of nature |
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the consequence argument |
if we have no control over the cause of an effect, then we have no control over that effect |
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incompatibilism |
view that if determinism is true, no one can act freely |
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hard determinism |
view that free will does not exist, no one acts freely |
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libertarianism |
view that some actions are free , for they are caused or controlled by the person or agent |
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compatibilism |
view that although determinism is true, our actions can still be free |
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agent causation |
view that a free action is caused by an agent and is not wholly determined by previous events |
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libertarian concept of free will |
determinism is false, determinism and free will are incompatible and we sometimes act freely |
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event causation |
all events in the universe are produced in virtue of the properties that objects possess |
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compatibilist conception of free will |
even though are desires are determined, we can still act freely as long we have the power to do what we want, and nothing is preventing us from doing it |
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rationalism |
view that through unaided reason we can come to know what the world is like |
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empiricism |
view that our knowledge of the empirical world comes solely from sense experience |
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platos metaphysical system |
study of reality, an inquiry into the fundamental nature of the universe and the things in it |
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platos argument for innate knowledge |
knowledge of these immaterial ideals is already present at birth, inscribed in our minds in a previous existence |
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locke's empiricism |
innate ideas does not exist, the ideas could have easily arisen through sense experience |
