PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Hard Determinism, Wine Glass, Moral Responsibility
3 Apr 2018
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Free will & determinism: examples, your car won"t start. Is there a cause: no there is no cause however, this isn"t acceptable because we think that there must be a cause, your mousetrap won"t work. If there was no cause, it couldn"t have happened in the first place: our failure to find a cause, does not mean there is not a cause, determinism (hard determinism) If c (cause), then e (effect) follows by necessity: causality is strict, hard determinism, 1) there is universal, ancestral causation, c c c c c c, 2) if something is caused, it cannot be free. Agent causation accepts the incompatibility principle: libertarianism, 1) at least some of our actions are free, people who believe they are free take responsibility, 2) anything which is free cannot be caused - incompatibility principle. If something is caused, it cannot be free.
