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Directions: Using Times New Roman or a similar font, please write out a 2 to 2 ½ page paper, double spaced, with 1 inch margins, using 12 point font, on the prompt given below. Once you have finished your paper, turn it in to the appropriate dropbox/folder on Blackboard as an .rtf, .pdf, .doc, or .docx file. See the course schedule for the due date. IF MY COMPUTER CANNOT ACCESS THE FILE TYPE YOU SEND, YOUR PAPER WILL NOT BE GRADED OR COUNTED FOR CREDIT.
Prompt: The most recent week dealt with free will. In this week’s reflection paper, I want you to explain at least the following items related to these broader topics.
- Explain, in your own view, whether or not human beings have free will. Are there cases where we do not? How frequent is it the case that our wills are free? Does your view line up more closely with libertarianism, compatibilism, or hard determinism as discussed in class and in the readings?
- Give an argument for the correctness of your own view about the nature of free will. Explain what advantages, if any, your own view has over that of Kane, Churchland, Frankfurt, and/or our other authors in this section.
- On your view, is free will related in any significant way to moral responsibility? Explain in some detail.
- Do you think society would change if we found out/came to believe that no one had any free will? Explain this in some detail, whether you think there would be great changes, minimal changes, no changes, or something in between.