Phil 1101 1st Edition Lecture 21Outline of Last Lecture I. Master ArgumentII. Against DeterminismIII. IncompatibilismIV. IndeterminismOutline of Current Lecture I. CompatibilismII. Finding the Ordinary ConceptIII. ProblemsIV. Ayer’s attempt at a fixCurrent LectureI. Compatibilisma. Free will is consistent with determinismi. One and the same action can be BOTH free and completely determinedii. So there is no “problem” of free willb. Denies the first premise of the argument to get out of the dilemmac. The Strategyi. Argue that the incompatabilist misunderstands the ordinary concept of free willii. Offer a different analysisII. Finding the Ordinary Concepta. How do we know what concept we ordinarily express by words like “free will”b. Stace’s Definition of Freedomi. You have free will when you are doing what you want to doii. His official definition of free will: Free acts are those whose immediate causes are the psychological states of the agentIII. ProblemsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. What is the “immediate cause”?b. We might want to do actions that aren’t free i. The torture caseii. The kleptomaniac caseIV. Ayer’s attempt at a fixa. A free action musti. Be caused by a conscious desire to that action1. In particular: if you hadn’t desired to do it, you wouldn’t have done itb. Does this handle the kleptomaniac case?i. Yes. His conscious decision is irrelevant to whether he
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