PHILOS 2 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Determinism, Neuroscience, Fatalism
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Free will- the idea that agents sometimes act and choose freely. If subject s has the option of choosing something other than a then subject s has free will. Causal determinism- every event is causally determined to occur by some other events. Every event that occurs is the result of earlier causes and natural laws. Fatalism- present and future are fixed; whatever happens now or in the future happens necessarily; both causal determinism and fatalism undermine the existence of free will. Libertarianism- idea that some human actions or choices are not causally determined. Compatiblism- rejects the argument that free will and causal determinism are incompatible. Incompatiblism- if determinism is true thievery man action is necessitated by prior events and if thats true then no one can choose or act otherwise.
