Explain R.B. Hobart's idea of "wish-will-act."
How does this affect our ability to choose our behavior?
- According to Hobart, free actions occur when the universal causal law is permitted to operate without interference: your wish for something translates into willing which becomes acting.
- Unfree actions occur when the necessary causal process is interfered with by outside factors of restraint or constraint.
- Freedom exists because, without other constraints, we could will one thing or a completely different thing.
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a. true b. false
Shoemaker's Brain Transplant thought experiment is intended to show that the brain theory is incoherent.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
According to your text, philosophy is a practice of
a. giving reasons in support of one’s beliefs and actions. b. collecting different opinions on weird questions. c. finding an alternative to religious belief. d. finding beliefs that are emotionally appealing.
By applying the rule Simp to "(L ? I) ? [(F v M) ? (D v F)]" we can deduce
A) (F v M) ? (D v F) B) D v F C) F v M