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Holmstrom I. 1. According to soft determinism, when is an action free? When is it not free?
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Free- from an internal cause
Not free- external cause |
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Holmstrom I. 2. Why is the standard soft determinist account of free acts inadequate?
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Some source could influence your allegedly 'free' actions, even though the cause is internal
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Holmstrom I. 3. For Holmstrom, what does it mean to have control over something?
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I must be a significant part of the causal process, and aware that I am a part of it
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Holmstrom I. 4. How does Holmstrom describe free acts in terms of a continuum?
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Continuum: a spectrum of free and unfree
Control is based on a degree of "how free" it is. Free|------------X---------|Unfree |
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Holmstrom I 5. What is the major purpose of Holmstrom’s paper?
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People can have differing amounts of control over what they desire or believe
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Holmstrom II. 1. Why is it consistent for soft determinism to hold that the actions of a heroin addict are unfree, even though they come from the addict’s beliefs and desires?
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You need to be in control as a whole person
-integrated set of beliefs and desires -must be no internal conflict (heroin: want, but do not want) |
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Holmstrom VI. 1. What objection does Holmstrom raise against her contention that we have control over some of our actions?
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You need to have control over internal desires
"all internal desires" is too broad You must have control over all preceding events,which is impossible; you cannot have control over what happened at the Big Bang |
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Holmstrom VI. 2. Why does it not make sense to look for something other than myself that controls my integrated set of beliefs and desires?
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It is free if it comes from an integrated set of beliefs and desires=whole self
If it happened before your integrated set (your whole self) it is irrelevant |
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Holmstrom VI 3. At what point does a series of higher order volitions (second order desire, third order desire, and so on) come to an end?
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To be free, you need to want to want something...wanting to want to want to want to want something is irrelevant
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