Is determinism consistent with free-will?

Is determinism consistent with free-will?

Reason & Reality
Phil: 101IH-

Summer 2017

Second Quiz

Answer any three questions:

(1) What is determinism? Is determinism different from causality or predictability? If so how?

(2) Is determinism consistent with free-will? What is compatibilism? Discuss a compatibilist’s position regarding the relationship between determinism and free-will.

(3) What is fatalism? Give an argument in favor for fatalism. What is an objection to fatalism?

(4) Identify the name of the philosophers from the following writings:

(i) We are not morally responsible for our actions.

(ii) We need to have a science of human behavior based on which we can control human actions.

(iii) Karma is grounded in a “greed, anger, and folly without beginning.….”

(5) Consider the analysis of the sentence “x has done y freely” in terms of the sentence “it is possible that x could have done otherwise”. Discuss an argument against this analysis.

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