CAS PH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Incompatibilism, I Feel Free, Heredity
3 May 2016
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Incompatibilism: however self-consciously aware we are, as we deliberate and reason, every act and operation of our mind happens as it does as a result of features for which we are ultimately in no way responsible. Upbringing, laws of nature, things that determinist may appeal to. Thinks free will and moral responsibility are equally incompatible with determinism as with indeterminism. To be ultimately mr, one must be a self-cause. Acting for a reason depends on part on how one is, mentally speaking. To be mr, one must have consciously and deliberately chosen to be the way one is. How one is now depends on prior principles p1: values, attitudes, etc. Prior principles p1 must have been chosen in light of prior principles. To stop regress and be truly mr involves being a self-cause. Conclusion: i"m not a self-cause, so i"m not mr. Change is possible (even if determinism is true)
