1. The Saga of the Rolling Stones

2. Rolling Stone

3. Rolling Stones

4. Determinism Every event is determined by an antecedent cause Does this make freedom problematic? Why is the loss of freedom troubling?

5. Determinism --> ~ Moral Responsibility Determinism --> ~Freedom --> Can’t be Blamed or Praised --> ~ Moral Responsibility Is this the problem?

6. Or is this it?

7. Does Determinism Challenge Freedom? Every event is determined by an antecedent cause Does this mean that at any given time only one action is possible? There is at any instant exactly one physically possible future.

8. Foreknowledge Fate/Prederminism

9. Dilemma Which is true? Freedom Determinism

10. Disjunctive Syllogism Libertarianism Hard DeterminismFW v D ~D ~FW ∴ FW ∴ D

11. FW & D Compatibilism

12. The Forking Path Model Choice Could Have Done Otherwise

13. The Forking Path Model Choice ~ Could Have Done Otherwise Voluntary Action

14. Choice Based on Desires Free will: the ability to select a course of action as a means of fulfilling some desire

15. Desire 1st order Desires 2nd order Desires Desires to do this and thatDesires about desires to do this and that

16. Free Action vs. Free Will Free Action: The desire on which I act is one that I desire to be effective Addict is not acting freely: Acts out of a desire which he does not want to act upon. Free Will: ability to make 1st order desires the one upon which I act. But I also could have willed to refrain from doing so.

17. The Problem of Compulsion Inner/Outer Addiction Manipulation

18. Does Determinism Challenge Freedom? Every event is determined by an antecedent cause At any given time only one action is possible At any instant exactly one physically possible future.

19. Ayer’s Compatibilism What do we mean by ‘Determinism’? Causation Constraint

20. Cause & Effect Causation: Regularity C causes E = whenever C then E There is no causal necessity

21. Constraint The only cases in which we do not act freely are those in which we are constrained. Examples: gun to the head, kleptomaniac

22. If no causes necessitate then all actions are free How can we distinguish?

23. Nature determines us to will certain general ends. These we will necessarily. Freedom: we consider various means to these ends.

24. ~ Could have done otherwise Only one route Metaphysics/Epistemology Choice