Free agent

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ID Number: 160026059 Tutorial Name and Code: Mind and World PY1010 Clotilde Torregrossa Does free will require the ability to do otherwise? I hereby declare that the attached piece of written work is my own work and that I have not reproduced, without acknowledgment, the work of another.  In this essay I will refute the notion that the type of free will worth wanting, or the kind that grants us moral responsibility, is not incumbent upon an ability to do otherwise. To do so, I will…

Compatibilism. 2) Incompatibilism. According to compatibilism free will is possible even if determinism is true. But, incompatibilism says that freewill is not real if determinism exist (Sider 2014). Incompatibilism cover two terms that are hard determinism and libertarian. Hard determinism conclude that if determinism is valid than no need of freewill. but, libertarian is opposite to it by rejecting determinism in the face of freewill (Sider 2014). Free will mean the action that we choose…

deterministic worldview in which everything is determined by causality. This is an impossible task. Causality is the reason I act towards a certain goal. Causality is the reason behind every decision a person makes. For Kant to determine that an agent can arise at a decision independent of causality does not seem possible. Furthermore, Kant has presupposed characteristics upon a world he previously remarked could not be understood by humans. The noumenal world therefore is a theoretical…

“Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from various alternatives. However, it is crucial to note that the action that we choose might not correspond to the outcome that we desire as free will is solely pertinent to the course of action, not the result. Throughout the millennia, a significant number of philosophers postulated that the concept of free will is in the vicinity of moral responsibility which in turn…

that is required to make them morally responsible, and that human behaviour is entirely goverened by casual laws; and it is the apparent conflict between these two assumptions that gives rise to the problem of the freedom of the will” The debate over free will and whether we can control of our destiny has been at the heart of philosophical debate for centuries. Philosopher such as Aristotle, Hume, William James, Ted Honderich. This essay will discuss that no one is the master of their own…

What is the nature of freedom? Or a better question should be, what is free will and do we have it? The definition of free will is not a simple answer. Free will tries to account for our introspective belief that we have control of our actions and as a result, our own destiny. Nothing in our lives is predetermined and every cause has an effect. Human actions are caused, but we can consider actions free if they are the result of internal motivations rather than external events, a belief known as…

Human action is shown as determined as everything else. It also shows that it cannot be the case that causes are the reason events occur (uncaused or undetermined by cause). This definition of free will takes into account that in order to be held morally responsible for ones actions, one must be justly punished or rewarded. It also takes into account that one should not punish a man for what he cannot help doing. It begs the important question…

Determinism assumes that we do not have free will, since we are not personally responsible for our own actions. An individual can only have free will if they performed an action they were completely responsible for, but had the option of performing a different action under the same conditions. However, since all of our actions are predetermined, there is no way we could make our own decisions and cause our own actions, therefore illustrating that we do not have free will under the theory of…

principle of causality. Free will is the philosophical doctrine that denies determinism is true, that some of our choices are uncaused. Free will is the result of the absence of conditions, causes, and other necessary determinants of behaviour or choice. Neither mental nor physical events are determined by past events. Thomas Hobbes offered his account of freedom by suggesting that external impediments are not the reasons for an individual's action rather the free agents have the freedom to…