+1 862 207 3288 Philosophy 1. Explain as clearly as you can the philosophical problem of free will. 2. What is the position of hard determinism? 3. What is the position of soft determinism? 4. How do Soft Determinists define freedom and how is that different from the Hard Determinists definition of freedom. 5.What is libertarianism? 6. How is libertarianism different from Hard determinism? 7. How is libertarianism different from Soft Determinism? 8. Why does causal indeterminacy (evidenced by quantum mechanics) not explain free will? 9. What is the main weakness of Soft Determinism? 10. Why is dualism of no help in explaining free will? 11. How is the question of free will related to morality? Descartes’ Meditation V (Online), Does God Exist? A debate between Paul Draper and William Lane Craig. We will watch this in class. Link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9F4m_JZBdY ASSIGNMENT WEEK 10 and 11 – In a typed 350 word minimum response address the questions below. Some questions are from the video linked above. You should only use the text book as your source for the other questions, and you should not copy from the text book. You need to put your answers in your own words to show me you can articulate the ideas. Any copying from the text or outside sources will receive 0 points.(5 Points) Due Thursday March 19. 1) List the distinct reasons (arguments) that William Lane Craig gives for theism.(See debate video) 2) List the distinct jelly beans (probabilistic arguments) Draper gives for atheism (See debate video) 3) Who do you think has the better arguments and why? 4)Explain in your own words, not just copied from the book or other source, Descartes’ version of the ontological argument. 5) Explain Kant’s objection to the Ontological Argument 6) What are Hume’s criticisms of the Cosmological Argument? 7) Explain in your own words the Teleological Argument. 8) What are Hume’s criticisms of the Teleological Argument? What is Darwin’s criticism?
Philosophy 1. Explain as clearly as you can the philosophical problem of free will. 2. What is the position of hard determinism? 3. What is the position of soft determinism? 4. How do Soft Determinists define freedom and how is that different from the Hard Determinists definition of freedom. 5.What is libertarianism? 6. How is […]