PHIL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Compatibilism, Gregory Vlastos, Hermeneutics
9 Dec 2012
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Lecture five: how to evaluate and reconstruct complex arguments. Are two terms being used in two different ways (fallacy of equivocation). The second and related to the first step (they really go hand and hand) we next try and determine which premise we may reject. We reject premise by thinking of a possible thought experiment: example, if all events are caused, then we are not free, all events are caused, therefore: we are not free, the argument is deductive. It is making an absolute truth claim based on a conceptual analysis of the most important terms: event , causation , freedom and we . We might start by challenging the first premise: just because all events are caused does not mean that we are not free. My action is caused yet i decided to do it. It is a free action on my part. So we can claim that the action is an event.
