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What is the agent-causation argument?
- Something must've moved the brain - YOU
- Therefore you are the cause.
- Our free will impacts our brain
- Chrishold didn't know how
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What is simple indeterminism?
- Stressing the difference between actions and events
- Event = Cause + Event
- Action = Intent + Action + Purpose
- Purpose included in intent and realized by the action
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Final Cause vs Efficient Cause
- Final cause: (teleological thinking): the end point or goal drawn by a goal from the future
- Efficient cause: drawn from the past
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Why are reasons or intentions not causes of action?
- Actish phenomena quality: the appearance that we act of our own free will
- Actions are different from events
- Actions must originate in us with reason.
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What is causal indeterminism?
- We can deliberate about the random memories we have but we cannot choose them when faced with making a decision (rational choice)
- Rational choices are a compatibilist ideal of free will
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What is the consequence argument?
Incompatibilist argument: If determinism is true, the present and future are necessary consequences of the past and there would not be free will
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What are hard determinists?
They reject free will, say determinism is right and that free will is an illusion.
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What are hard incompatibilists?
Incompatible because they think free will doesn't exist even if determinism isn't true (Pereboom)
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Who is Galen Strawson?
- Our character determines us/our mind which leads to infinite regress
- It could not have happened at any time
- Causa sui: "the cause of itself"
- Spinoza calls God causa sui
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What does Henderich say about crime and punishment in terms of free will?
- Less retribution because our actions are done by our circumstances
- If no free will, you can still be a danger to society and must be quarantined (like the sick)
- Punishments act as deterents
- Based on idea of NO FREE WILL
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How can we feel proud, happy or loved?
- There is acknowledgement in our actions that drives our activities and thus we can be proud, happy, loved
- Love would be deficient if they were determined by circumstances, not by the person
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