PHI Exam 2 Questions With Verified Answers
Free Will - Answer the ability to move without impediment Determinism - Answer The link between the past and the future is strong & if there is only one past, then there must be only one future Compatabalism - Answer we can have free will even if there is only one future, determinism is compatible with free will and responsibility Incompatabalism - Answer We have to choose between accepting determinism or free will Hard Determinism - Answer If determinism is true then we aren't truly free because we lack the control of our future Principle of Sufficient Reasoning - Answer Anything that happens does so for a definite reason Indeterminism - Answer The future is not fixed by the past. Deep Self Compatabalism - Answer We are free as long as we act on desires we truly wish to act on, and that we can identify with. Consequence Argument - Answer Argument for Incompatibilism that claims that determinism is not compatible with moral responsibility Principle of Alternative Possibilities - Answer Necessary condition for freedom and responsibility to have the power to act other than we, in fact, have acted Liberatarianism - Answer Branch of indeterminism that holds the future is open and that we have the power to shape it. Event Causation - Answer the process of one event causing another Agent Causation - Answer an agent can spontaneously act without prior events necessitating the agent's action Personal Identity - Answer do I persist through time? Who am I? How unified am I?
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