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24 Cards in this Set
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Diachronic Identity |
Person remains the same over time.
X at one time is equal to Y at another if and only if X remembers being Y. |
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Principle of Sufficient Reason |
For every fact there is a reason/explanation. If there are brute facts in nature then PSR is false. |
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Ambiguity |
"A" could mean anything |
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Incompatibilism |
The belief that Determinism and Free Will are not compatible because it is impossible for one of them and not the other to be true. |
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Determinism |
Given the past and laws of nature, there is only one way that things can happen. Necessates what happens later. |
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Indeterminism |
There is more than one way an event could have occured given the past and laws of nature. |
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Argument that free will and incompatibalists are themselves incompatible. |
Incompatibilists think that free will and determinism are incompatible. They think that free will and inteterminism are compatible. |
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Overall argument that free will remains a mystery |
1.There is free will 2.If compatiblism is true there is no free will 3.If incompatabilism is true there is free will 4.Either compatibilism is or icompabilism is true There is no free will. Thus, a contradiction. |
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Agent Causation |
Causation that occurs when one event causes another event. |
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Possible World |
One way a world could have been. A maximl complete description of the world if there are four worlds each world is able to see ach other world, plus itself. |
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Perfect Being |
A perfect being has all perfections. -Necessary existence is a perfection. -Hence, a perfect being has necessary existence. -Whatever has necessary existence exists. -Hence, a perfect being.
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Anti-Compatibilism Argument |
If determinism is true, then we dont have free will |
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Compatibilism |
The thesis that determinism and free will might both be true. |
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Conditional vs Intrinsic |
Conditional-The impossibility is conditional on something that might have been different.
Intrinsic-Complexity impossible no matter what. |
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2 Reasons against PSR |
1. Physics If brute facts occur in nature then PSR is false.
2. Philisophical Contingent Facts is a dependent fact. Necessary truths are independent facts.
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Modal Ontological Argument |
-It is impossible for there to be a perfect being -Necessary existence is a perfection Therefore, there is a perfect being.
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Human Organisms |
Human organisms are not mere hunks of matter-Van Inwagen
They are a self sustaining storm of particles. Same organism. Same person |
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Interactionism |
Explain Dualism Explain Physicalism Explain properties of body explain properties of soul All of these things interact together
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Common Speech |
Think with the learned and speak with the vulgar I touch my backpack. My soul does not touch my backpack. We talk as though we are our body. We don't talk dualistically
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Remote Control |
If there is a soul that interacts with the body then that is an analogy with a remote control and a drone. The remote sends signal (soul)to the drone (body) the drone listens to the signals of the remote control. They operate independetly as well as together. |
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Duplication |
Would the body live if duplicated? Would it act as the original? The dupicated body wouldn't have a soul therefore wouldn't have any desires to act as the original body |
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Transitivity Law of Identity |
For any a, b, c.... A=B, B=C, C=A |
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Ship of Theseus |
There are 3 ships (Original, continuous, and reconstructed) -Is the orignal ship identical with the continuous? -Is the orginal ship identical w/ the reconstructed ship? -Neither
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Dualism vs Physicalism |
The body has udnergone changes therefore is not the same as it was 10 years ago. PHysical body is a hunk of matter that was exactly the same parts but the body is changing therefore physicalism is not the same as duaism. Body and mind are separate. |
