Molly Austin vs Texas Describe o Molly has a choice between a large firm in Dallas or a smaller firm in Austin o If Molly believes her choice is of her own free will she must believe both options are open to her while she is deliberating Point Kane intends to challenge o Displays the conflict between free will and determinism o Free will allows Molly open futures Garden of Forking Paths or the ability to choose either law firm Molly should be able to go through the same deliberations that led to her choosing Dallas and yet choose Austin instead without any intervening cause to explain why o Determinism implies that there is only one possible path into the future Threatens Garden of Forking Paths because it implies that there really only is one possible path into the future Succeeds or fails o Succeeds in proving a contrast between free will and determinism o If determinism were true 1 It wouldn t be up to us what we chose from an array of possibilities since only one possible path would be possible and 2 The source or origin of our actions would not be from us but in something else outside of us and beyond our control resulting from previous events and laws of nature o Danielle had a traumatic childhood incident that left her incapable of wanting to o On her 16th birthday her father brings her 2 lab puppies one blonde one black Danielle and the Blonde Lab Describe touch a blonde Labrador and tells her to choose o She picks up the black Lab Point Kane intends to challenge freedoms picking that puppy Succeeds or fails o Objection to the hypothetical analysis seems to only deal with surface o Because of her past issue with the blonde Lab she has a mental constraint from o She is unable to touch the blonde Lab in the pair because she is unable to want to o Succeeds in disproving the hypothetical analysis o Danielle was not free to do otherwise because she can t form the want to touch the Lab so she couldn t pick that one o Tells us that Danielle is able to touch it since she would touch it if she wanted to Mike Hawaii vs Colorado Describe o Mike can choose to go to Hawaii or Colorado for vacation o If Mike s deliberation lead him to favor Hawaii without it being a necessity him choosing Colorado would seem irrational and inexplicable o According to libertarians Mike s choice would have to be undetermined so he might have chosen otherwise given the same deliberation up until the choice Point Kane intends to challenge o Displays a flaw of indeterminism different possible future given same past o If Mike s choice was undetermined then he might have chosen otherwise given the exact same deliberation up to the moment of choice that led him to choose HI So Mike s choice of Colorado choosing otherwise under these circumstance favor Hawaii would seem irrational and arbitrary o Mike s choice to go to Colorado would seem random wouldn t give him the kind of control required for free action Succeeds or fails John vs John Describe o John and John are identical in every way power capacities state of mind moral character up until the moment of choice o John fails to resist temptation to do what he thinks he shouldn t do arrive on time to a meeting o John in an alternative world resists the temptation and arrives on time Point Kane intends to challenge o Displays the luck objection flaw with indeterminist condition o If the circumstances of John and John are exactly the same up until the moment of choice then there is nothing about the agents that explains why John failed to overcome the temptation and John did not except luck o Is if fair to punish John and reward John if it s simply a result of luck o The agents acting differently can t be accounted for by circumstance prior to that action because there is no difference in these prior circumstances Succeeds or fails o Succeeds in supporting Mele s Luck Objection o Mattered by some sort of chance that both Johns decided to do different actions but remained with the exact same qualities up until the decision was made Mary and her keys Describe o Mary returned to her room to obtain her keys Point Kane intends to challenge o Displays the difference between reasons and causes needed to understand simple indeterminism o Reasons can have purposes that are not determined by past actions events Explain why Mary acted the way she did but do not cause determine her Succeeds or fails to act that way o Succeeds in showing that desires and other reasons influence actions not by causing them but by entering into the contents of our intentions to perform the actions Mary s desire to find her keys influenced her entering the room because she intended to enter the room in order to satisfy the desire to find her keys o Desire influences action not by causing it but by being referred to in the o But wouldn t Mary having lost her keys cause the desire to search the room intention to perform the action seems that desires have causes