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Vargas
Vargas
100
He says his view is a "hybrid account."
Who is Manual Vargas?
100
This is also known as "common sense psychology"
What is folk psychology?
100
The belief that there are two elements of existence: Physical and Spiritual.
What is Dualism?
100
This philosophical view believes that genetics determine personalities and actions only through the Newtonian laws of cause and effect. They affirm that freedom and free will are fiction and because of this humans have no moral responsibility for their actions. They insist that the sources of motivation behind their thoughts and actions are causualistic and predictable and that free will is an illusion triggered by convenience and ego. The past determines the future.
What is hard determinism?
100
____________ believes that free will is always constrained by predetermined actions, but within those constraints lie the gift of choice.
What is compatibilist?
200
This philosopher believes the "body-problem" undermines the "mind-body" problem.
Who is Barbara Montero?
200
soft determinism
What is compatiblism?
200
Mental events can be grouped into types.
What is type physicalism? (Reductive materialism, type identity theory, mind-brain identity theory, identity theory of mind)
200
Without _____________, there would be no moral responsibility because the actions of humans would be unpredictable and meaningless. Devoid of _____ _____, options and choices would be superfluous and unessential to reality.
What is determinism and free will?
200
This is 6 points in the context of a game of American football, but that could easily be changed to 7 or 5 points.
What is a touchdown?
300
This philosopher calls her view the empathetic access view.
Who is Marya Schechtman?
300
"All effects have causes" is known as this.
What is causal determinism?
300
humans make choices and guide themselves through a decision making process and are in absolute control of their futures
What is libertarianism?
300
One needs to have this over his or her actions in order to have free will. But one can still act freely when one lacks this. However, when one is morally responsible and is a responsible agent, one cannot lack this.
What is control? (What is the role of indeterminism?)
300
Vargus distinguishes accounts of free will in these two ways. The two elements that he believes will be in any comprehensive theory of free will.
What is diagnostic and perscriptive?
400
This philosopher calls his view "animalism."
Who is Eric Olson?
400
These two things are required to prove free will.
What are ultimate responsibility and alternative possibilities?
400
Mental phenomena are caused by physical processes in the brain.
What is epiphenomenalism?
400
Vargus believes that the most influential argument for incompatibilism over the past few decades is Peter Van Inwagen’s __________?
What is the consequence argument?
400
Vargus argues that the common sense notion of determinism and moral responsibility is this.
What is incompatiblism?
500
This philosopher believes the presence of indeterminacy does not undermine ultimate responsibility.
Who is Robert Kane?
500
“... you are driving your car and it is functioning normally. You want to go to the coffee house, so you [turn] the car to the right." This is an example of _______ ______ given by Fischer.
What is guidance control?
500
choices are irrelevant to reality because there is a fated design for everyone
What is determinism?
500
Vargus’s hybrid approach with the two elements of free will.
What is incompatibilism about the diagnosis and compatibilism about the prescription?
500
Vargus says “Taken as a whole, the responsibility norms and their attendant social practices, characteristic attitudes and paradigmatic judgments constitute what we can call the ________ ________.
What is the responsibility system?