PHIL 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Qualia, Mental Property, Emergentism
13 Dec 2016
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Determinism the claim that for any given state of the universe at a time, there is exactly one possible resultant state that comes about because of antecedent conditions in conjunction with the laws of nature. Problem: if determinism is true, all paths and choices are fixed, no free will. If determinism is false, nothing brings about the result, things just happen no free will. Desire=free will, that desire can be fixed meaning person is determined to have these wants that. Compatibilism definition and responses to free will and determinism: Compatibilism a family of solutions to the problem of free will and determinism that claim the existence of moral responsibility is compatible with determinism . Classic compatibilist theories claim that free will and moral responsibility require the ability to do otherwise, and that this ability is compatible with determinism. lead to free actions.
