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Options: Natural choices, and it is entirely up to us.

Free will: Hipnotist deeming Jones being morally good or bad because they dont have a choice. You cannot be morally deemed by actions if you didnt have a choice. Determinism. Prior events determines what actions will human beings perform. All events are fixed. We could predict the universe if we have the descriptions of all universe. Compatibilist dont have to choose between free will and determinism Incompatibilist say that we do have to choose

Incompatibilist:
Libertarianism: We have free will. Future is genuinely open. What accounts for free will? How could quantum physics demonstrating true random events have to do with free will free will outside of the physical realm (here comes reason and descartes) If determinism is not true, then a lot of what science has said about the world is false. It means that what happens today is not determined or fixed simply by the past and the scientific facts. Some mysterious influence, unknown to science, must be at work in the world. But what is this influence? (pg 6//12) Determinism: Hard determinism we have no free will: None of our actions are really up to us as Chocolate over vanilla, physical events in your brain laws or natural. Is there a denial of will within hard determinism? Pushes no morally responsible How does the cause and effect within our mental processes of hard determinism undermine free will? Does will have a play in these? What makes us take a decision and not other when we are allowed to Soft Determinism: Just in case if you have wanted to

if we are not being forced

to do something, what we do depends on what we want and how we think we can get it, and how we think the world is generally. These things our desires, intentions and beliefs about the world are things which happen, and these things seem to be fixed by things which happen before them. () And when we trace the dependence of these things on earlier things, we will come eventually to things which happened before we were born, and therefore on things over which we have no control. (Pg 5//11// of subject guide)

(Determinism must be distinguished from fatalism. Fatalism is the view that whatever happens must happen, or that whatever happens is the only possible thing that could happen. (pg6//12/)

Determinism is not committed to the view that what happens is the only possible thing that could happen. Philosophers sometimes talk of possibilities in terms of the idea of a possible world: to say that something is possibly true is to say that there is a possible world in which it is true. Fatalism says that there is only one possible world: things could not have been otherwise from the way they actually are. Determinism implies that there are many possible worlds: things could have been otherwise from the way they are, if things had been different in the past, or if the laws had been different.)

Why believe determinism? The normal answer is that natural science, especially physics, treats the world as deterministic. Or, to put it another way, the laws of physics (or the laws of nature) are deterministic . Many scientists and philosophers think that the physical world is indeterministic: that at bottom it is governed by ineliminable chance.

Compatibilist:
Compatibilists make the following sorts of claim: iii. being free is a matter of ones actions being unconstrained, and an actions being unconstrained is consistent with its being determined; iv. someone is free if they could have done otherwise from what they actually did; and determinism allows that someone could have done otherwise from what they actually did, if the world had been different at a time before their choice;

v. being free is having ones actions caused by ones beliefs and desires, and this is consistent with determinism, since this is consistent with ones beliefs and desires being caused by things that happened before they came into existence. The common theme to all compatibilist views is this: we should define freedom in such a way that an action or an act of will can be free consistently with determinism. To be consistent with determinism, the freedom of an action should not question the idea that everything that happens is fixed by the laws of nature and the past.

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