PHIL 100 Lecture 13: Lec13
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Hard determinism: fw is not compatible with cd, cd is true, therefore, we have no fw. Reasons to accept hard determinism (hd: libertarians cannot provide an adequate response to the randomness objection, compatibilists cannot provide an adequate response to the appearance objection. Moral responsibility objection: hard determinism cannot explain the fact that we hold agents morally responsible. Morality objection: hard determinism cannot make sense of morality: normative moral systems tell us what we ought to do. Derk pereboom: we lack the kind of free will necessary for moral responsibility. Hard incompatibilism: fw is incompatible with both causal determinism and. The truth of cd makes no difference to the fw debate. Compatibilist: even if a person"s actions are causally determined, it is possible for him to act freely. Pereboom: there is no difference between a causally determined act and a manipulated act (478) Libertarian: we have fw in the form of agent causation.
