HONS 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Galen Strawson, Hard Determinism, Determinism
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Instinctive reactions (no conscious thought) -walking down the street to get food when hungry: reflexes - can"t control - choosing which movie to watch. Hard determinist: all of our actions are determined - no human action is free will: prior decisions. Chaos theory: completely deterministic models: extremely dependent on initial conditions, the butterfly effect - one action can cause a greater action elsewhere. No action is free if it must occur (if it is causally determined) but all events are causally determined. No action is free if it must occur. These are two extremes (hard determinism and libertarianism) agree about the first premise, but disagree about the truth of determinism. These two arguments embody a ge moor shift. Freedom of the will part ii : hard determinism and free will skepticism. Hard determinism: because (1) determinism is true and (2) causally determined acts are not free (3) no acts are free.
