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Logic
Materialism
Determinism
Compatibilism
Libertarianism
100
A set of sentences with premises and conclusion
What is an argument?
100
Mental states are just behaviors.
What is behaviorism?
100
In addition to the past, these dictate what the present will be like.
What are the laws of nature?
100
Determinism is true and free will exists.
What is compatibilism?
100
The claim that determinism is false and free will exists.
What is libertarianism?
200
An argument whose premises, when true, are not meant to guarantee the truth of the conclusion.
What is an inductive argument?
200
Mental states are functional states.
What is functionalism?
200
The claim that determinism is false.
What is indeterminism?
200
If an agent wanted to do otherwise, then the agent would have done otherwise.
What is the conditional analysis of could have done otherwise?
200
The hurricane caused the orphanage to collapse.
What is event causation?
300
If the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true.
What is a valid argument?
300
If an x can convince a competent expert of y's that it is a y, then it is a y.
What is the Turing Test?
300
The claim that we have free will in the path we take, but the end result will always be the same.
What is fatalism?
300
Free actions are caused by second order volitions.
What is hierarchical compatibilism?
300
I caused the window to break.
What is agent causation?
400
If p, then q. If q, then r. Therefore, if p, then r.
What is a hypothetical syllogism?
400
It is possible that one person's experience of green is what another person experiences when seeing red.
What is the problem of the inverted spectrum?
400
The claim that, if determinism is true, then we should open up all the jails and let everyone out.
What is the moral responsibility objection to determinism?
400
We do not have the power to want or choose differently.
What is the incompatibilist response to traditional compatibilism?
400
Free will either results in determinism, because of a change of reasons, or randomness, because of no change in reasons. This makes free will incoherent.
What is the mechanics of free will objection?
500
If p, then q. q. Therefore, p.
What is the fallacy of affirming the consequent?
500
Identity theory only posits the existence of physical substances, and can still explain everything the dualist can.
What is the advantage of ontological economy?
500
If causal determinism is true, then every event is the consequence of past events plus the laws of nature. We are powerless to change the past, the laws of nature, or their consequences, which includes our actions. If we are powerless to change our actions – if we can’t do otherwise than we are destined to do – then we can’t act freely. Therefore, if causal determinism is true, we can’t act freely.
What is the consequence argument?
500
A desire to act on a second order desire.
What is a second order volition?
500
Actions are free because we can form our selves through changing our values, beliefs or desires.
What are self-forming actions?