PHL 150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unmoved Mover, Temporal Parts, Incompatibilism
10 Dec 2016
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Perry"s dialogue: you are your brain. Objection: split brain in two bodies is impossible: you are your body. Weirob gives brain rejuvenation argument: duplicate of new brain in same body and you would be same person. Frankfurt: the freedom of the will and the concept of a person : compatibilism, a person constitutes a 1st order desire and 2nd order desire. 2nd order desire: wanting something to be your will. Ginet: can the will be caused? : incompatibilism, determinism is not computable with free will. Pi: it"s impossible for a person to know what a decision of hers is going to be before she makes it. Pii: if it were possible for a decision to be caused, then it would be possible for a person to know what a decision of hers is going to be before she makes it. Conclusion: it"s not possible for a decision to be caused.
