CAS PH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hard Determinism, Fatalism, Compatibilism
6 Apr 2016
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An important question: if people don"t have free will . Conditions + laws of nature determined event. There is only one thing you could have done, or can do now, given the past and the scientific laws. Determinism: implies that if you change initial conditions, then outcomes change. A (study hard) b (good sat) c (bu acceptance) A1 (don"t study) b1 (poor sat) c1 (bu rejection) Two outcomes might appear the same to us, but a determinist would say they are in fact slightly different events. Implication of determinism: with full knowledge of conditions and laws, one could predict the future. Determinist: there are no real forks in the path; it just seems that you could do more than one thing at a given moment. Freedom meaning: things being up to us"; i am the source of action, i could have done otherwise . Worry: quantum physics suggests that the world is indeterministic.
