CORE1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Philosophical Theory
Introduction to Philosophy
Tutorial Five – Week Five
Week 4 to week 9 information
Test for Week 9
- Presentation topics
o Topic area
▪ Main positions of topic
o Theory in your own words
o Theorist
- Claim
- Argument
o What are they presenting on?
o What are they actually saying
Hard Determinism
- Free will
o Power or ability
- Causal
o Relationship
o Striking a match
▪ Combination of oxygen, the match being dry, and the strike it’s self
▪ Other factors can create the same effect
• Light it by a lighter
• Put it under a magnifying glass
- Hard Determinism
o Philosophical theory that believes all events, decisions and actions in the world are causally determined
by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences
o Events are caused by prior events
o Cause and effect
o The present determines the future
o Ancient Greece
▪ Isaac Newton
▪ Introduced physical laws that were founded in determinism
o Movies
▪ Butterfly effect, back to the future – Cause and effect through time
- Soft determinism
o Also known as compatiblism
o View that free will and determinism can co-exist
o People can be help morally responsible for their actions
- Metaphysical
o If we don’t have free will, then why are we here
- Science
o How can something happen if nothing has caused it
Essay
- Begins with a specific question
o Take a position – yes or no
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Document Summary
Presentation topics: topic area, main positions of topic, theory in your own words, theorist. Argument: what are they presenting on, what are they actually saying. Causal: relationship, striking a match, combination of oxygen, the match being dry, and the strike it"s self, other factors can create the same effect. Light it by a lighter: put it under a magnifying glass. Introduced physical laws that were founded in determinism: movies, butterfly effect, back to the future cause and effect through time. Soft determinism: also known as compatiblism, view that free will and determinism can co-exist, people can be help morally responsible for their actions. If we don"t have free will, then why are we here: how can something happen if nothing has caused it.
