Deck 4: Are You Free Freedom and Determinism

Question 1

What was Descartes' conclusion about the nature of the self, and how did he arrive at that conclusion?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What was Socrates' views on the soul, and why did he hold that view?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is compatibilism? Do you find any forms of compatibilism plausible? Why or
why not?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What was Descartes' theory of knowledge, and how did that guide his philosophical investigations?

Question 5

Explain Augustine's view of the soul. In what ways did he borrow from Plato?

Question 6

Soft determinism says that .

A) there is free will even though determinism is true
B) there is free will, so determinism is false
C) not every event is determined
D) some events are uncaused

Question 7

Determinism is the thesis that .

A) no one has free will
B) no one is responsible for their actions
C) every event is determined by events that cause it
D) everyone determines their own destiny

Question 8

Explain Plato's view of the soul. Why did he liken it to a chariot?

Question 9

Are there any outside forces that can act on us to limit our free will? In the absence of these, does free will exist?

Question 10

Indeterminism says that .

A) some actions are free
B) not all events are determined
C) all events are uncaused
D) some events are caused

Question 11

How did John Locke's views differ from those of Descartes? How did that determine
Locke's views of the self?

Question 12

Do you think determinism is true? From determinism, what do you think would follow about free will?

Question 13

What was Ryle's view of the mental as it relates to the physical? How did Ryle's view differ from those before him?

Question 14

What are the two forms of physicalism? How do they differ from each other?

Question 15

W.T. Stace argued that the will is free when it .

A) does not act under outside compulsion
B) determines the action that it causes
C) does not act as a result of disordered impulses
D) is not determined

Question 16

What was Hume's argument for the position that there is no such thing as the self?

Question 17

What was distinctive about Kant's view of the nature of self as related to experience?

Question 18

Does existentialism seem to you to be true? Does it have anything helpful or insightful to say about free will?

Question 19

The main form of compatibilism says that acts are free when they are .

A) undetermined
B) determined
C) caused
D) desired

Question 20

On what basis did Clarence Darrow and Baron D'Holbach argue against freedom of the will?

A) The will is constrained by social forces.
B) People do not always make the best decisions.
C) People do not understand why they do the things they do.
D) The will is subject to natural forces just like everything else.

Question 21

W.T. Stace argued against hard determinism by claiming that .

A) we can tell that determinism must be false
B) hard determinists do not understand free will
C) we cannot help but speaking in terms of free will
D) not all events are determined by their causes

Question 22

Unlike the hard determinists, Jean-Paul Sartre thought that .

A) our actions are determined completely by ourselves
B) determinism is compatible with free will
C) our actions are uncaused
D) indeterminism is true

Question 23

William James argued that since we can regret things that happened, .

A) freely willed actions must be caused
B) freedom must require that determinism is true
C) we should be able to choose any action we want
D) it must be possible for things to have turned out otherwise

Question 24

Indeterminism says that .

A) our actions are uncaused
B) we have free will
C) events are undetermined
D) we do not have free will

Question 25

Libertarians believe that .

A) our actions are uncaused
B) we have free will
C) determinism is true
D) determinism is false

Question 26

The feminist perspective on free will says that we are only free .

A) when we are doing what we want to do
B) when our actions are undetermined by outside circumstances
C) when people are not trying to constrain us
D) if our actions are caused by our own will

Question 27

Existentialism is the belief that .

A) essence precedes existence
B) we are responsible for our existence
C) free will is possible because of determinism
D) people determine their own natures by their choices

Question 28

Moritz Schlick argued that the will is free when it .

A) does not act under outside compulsion
B) determines the action that it causes
C) does not act as a result of disordered impulses
D) is not determined

Question 29

William James thought that we decide freely when .

A) our passions determine our decisions
B) our decisions are not constrained
C) our actions are not determined
D) our actions are uncaused