Question 1

According to Sartre, if God does not exist,

Accepted Answer

A)   anything is permissible.
B)   moral values must come from nature.
C)   moral values still exist.
D)   man does not exist. A

Question 2

If the thesis of determinism is true, then fatalism is also true.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

Incompatibilists believe that compatibilist freedom is

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A)   real freedom.
B)   a plausible hypothesis.
C)   undetermined.
D)   not real freedom. D

Question 4

According to d'Holbach, all the mental and moral attributes that people think are evidence for an immaterial soul are in fact

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A)   purely intellectual.
B)   purely physical and natural.
C)   ethereal.
D)   undetermined.

Question 5

On the subject of free will, John Locke was a

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A)   hard determinist.
B)   compatibilist.
C)   libertarian.
D)   fatalist.

Question 6

Van Inwagen rejects compatibilism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Hard determinism entails that

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A)   determinism and free will are compatible.
B)   determinism and indeterminism are compatible.
C)   determinism and free will are incompatible.
D)   we cannot know whether determinism is true.

Question 8

Taylor thinks that soft determinism is true to our moral intuitions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In your own words, explain the idea of agent causation. How is this supposed to help solve the problem of free will? Do you think agent causation is plausible? Why or why not?

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Question 10

Critics of compatibilist freedom say that merely being able to act according to your desires without constraints is not real freedom if your desires are determined for you in the first place. Do you agree with this criticism? Explain.

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Question 11

The movies Gattaca and A Clockwork Orange dramatize the fear of

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A)   a pleasurable future.
B)   a predetermined existence.
C)   an open future.
D)   violence.

Question 12

Consider the theory about free will known as libertarianism. It is based on the premises that determinism is false and that determinism and free will are incompatible. Do you accept these premises? Why or why not?

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Question 13

How does Stace use his examination of common language usage to argue for compatibilism? What is Stace's view of punishment? Do you agree with him? Explain.

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Question 14

According to Sartre, what existentialists have in common is that they think that

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A)   essence precedes existence.
B)   objectivity must be a starting point.
C)   existence is a myth.
D)   existence precedes essence.

Question 15

According to Taylor, hard determinism conflicts with

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A)   the findings of science.
B)   scientific determinism.
C)   the fact of deliberation and indeterminism.
D)   the fact of deliberation and our sense that some actions are up to us.

Question 16

The Consequence Argument is supposed to establish

Accepted Answer

A)   incompatibilism.
B)   free will.
C)   libertarianism.
D)   soft determinism.

Question 17

If our actions are not free in any important sense, it is difficult to see how we could be

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A)   determined by outside forces.
B)   the subject of accurate predictions.
C)   held morally responsible for what we do.
D)   human.

Question 18

According to Sartre, there is at least one being in whom existence precedes essence, and this being is

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A)   God.
B)   man.
C)   primitive man.
D)   future man.

Question 19

The view that some actions are free because they are ultimately caused, or controlled, by the person is called

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A)   libertarianism.
B)   soft compatibilism.
C)   ultimate freedom.
D)   indetermination.

Question 20

When philosophers talk about free will, they are talking about the power of

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A)   political systems.
B)   socio-economic mobility.
C)   living a good life.
D)   self-determination.

Exam 5: Free Will and Determinism