PHI 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: David Hume, Compatibilism, Determinism
13 Sep 2016
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Accepts that we have genuine free will. Rejects the claim that the world is deterministic. Accepts the claim that the world is deterministic. Accepts that free will and determinism are incompatible. Problem #1: the sheer force of our intuitions about acting freely: can we hope to convince ourselves that we are not acting freely, contrast with other error-theories . Rejects the claim that free will and determinism are incompatible (humean) compatibilism david humean. Accepts determinism: all actions are determined: some actions are determined by an agent"s own internal intentions (mental states: beliefs, desire, etc. , some actions are determined by external constraints (being forced to do something, tied up, etc. ) There is free will in the following sense: one acts freely insofar as one"s actions are determined by one"s internal intentions and not by external constraints. Motivations for (humean) compatibilism (purports to) avoid the problems of each of the other two positions: versus libertarianism.
