PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Moe Williams, Compatibilism, Foundationalism
29 Oct 2020
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Objections to strawson"s thesis must be truly responsible for the way you are at least in certain crucial mental respects. Compatibilist says we can be determined and yet still have a certain sort of free will and. Compatibilists: reject premise 2, which says to be truly responsible for what you do you responsibility. Strawson: compatibilist responsibility fails to amount to true moral responsibility (17). The libertarian objection: we can have ultimate moral responsibility because our choices are not determined. (seems to reject premise 3. ) But: rene descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy. Also a prominent mathematician and physicist: was french, lived in the netherlands; wrote in latin and french, his major philosophical works, discourse on method (1637, the meditations (1641, the world (1633) Three goals of the meditations: first, he wants to provide a secure foundation for all knowledge, including mathematical, astronomical, and physical knowledge. Remember plato here; he, too, was a rationalist.
