PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Theodicy, God Speaks, Homies
18 Apr 2016
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Determinism: the view that every event is caused by a prior event. All events are caused but some events are not caused by prior events. Indeterminism: the view that some events have no cause. An event is just a happening that occurs in time (middle ground position). Transeunt causation: when an event causes another event. If determinism is true, your character causes the action. There has to be a single underlying self. Essence of you is your physical features. Chisholm states that you are more than your physical and mental features. You are not reducible to features, you have features. Chisholm believes that the self cannot be one thing. Whether it is physical or more, there is something behind that. There is nothing that isn"t essential to oneself that isn"t to someone else"s self. Some event e1 deterministically causes e2 iff e1 causes e2, but does not determine.
