PHIL102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Compatibilism, Hard Determinism, Incompatibilism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL102
• Professor: Professor Shabo

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Carefully explain. (be sure to discuss the implications of this question for moral responsibility and punishment. ) Determinism: from a complete description of the world at any time, together with a complete statement of the laws of nature, a complete description of the world at every later time follows rigorously. Every event is caused by an earlier event. Everything is pre-disposed no possibilities of other things happening. (past + Soft determinists believe that determinism is true, and some human actions meet the conditions for free will and moral responsibility. According to soft determinists, having free will means acting in accordance with your own preferences. They believe if you are doing what you want to be doing, you are acting with free will. Hard determinism argues that in order to be free, it"s not enough to be doing what you want to be doing; it has to be that before you act, more than one outcome for the future is possible.