ATS1835 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Compatibilism, If And Only If, Agnosticism
24 Mar 2020
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Free will: determinism etc, what new problems arise, the intelligibility problem - how can we have free will if indeterminism is true, free will is impossible. Consistency and inconsistency: claims are to be distinguished from things such as exclamations, wishes, commands, questions etc, a claim is a statement that is capable of being true or false. "the grass is green" is true iff the grass in green. Contradictions: p and not p, we say p is the contradictory of not p and vice versa. Law of non-contradiction: contradictory statements can"t both be true in the same sense at the same time. Statements are inconsistent just in case they cannot all be true without generating a contradiction. Metaphysical explanation: an explanation in a philosophical context is answer to what is x question. It"s not flirting if the feelings aren"t mutual but this doesn"t seem right - it seems it is still flirting.
