CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Retributive Justice, Incompatibilism, Hard Determinism
16 Feb 2018
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What can cognitive science tell us about free will: what does it mean to say that you have free will, one option: if you have free will, then you can genuinely choose between alternative courses of action. Intuitive -> seems that it"s entirely up to you: laws of physics that tell us about the physical world, behaviour is governed by these predetermined laws of nature. Somewhere between physically determined and free will: don"t want to be determined in the determinism of our actions, we are freer than our parts -> our parts don"t have free will, but we do -> our bodies. Shouldve been looking at biology -> key at looking at free will are compatible with determinism. Why does free will matter: connection between free will and moral responsibility. Some evidence that belief in free will may be driven by desire to justify holding others blameworthy for their immortal behaviour (shariff et al.
