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6. Who pointed out that science suggests we are determined whereas sense experience suggests we have free will?

  • Freud
  • Descartes
  • Augustine
  • Aquinas

7. Which of the following is not an issue with hard determinism?

  • Science doesn't support it
  • It means we cannot trust our own sense experience (that we have free will) and therefore all evidence becomes invalid because we cannot trust our own senses
  • It goes against the legal system as it punishes people based upon the premise that we have moral responsibility for our actions, if we are determined, this is an unfair system
  • Face value validity - the fact we feel like we have free will is enough evidence for some that we do have free will

8. What approach does Skinner's and Pavlov's research support?

  • None of them
  • Soft determinism
  • Hard determinism
  • Libitarianism

9. Theological determinism is the idea that we are determined through conditioning from the environment

  • False
  • True

10. Who came up with 'TULIP' in support of theological determinism? (total depravity, unconditioned election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints)

  • Calvin
  • Kalvin
  • Augustine
  • Kant

11. Who said free will is an illusion and used the example of a locked room? (HD)

  • John Locked
  • John Locke
  • John Door
  • John Room

12. Which approach does the many worlds interpretation support?

  • None of these approaches
  • Hard determinism
  • Libitarianism
  • Compatibility/ soft determinism

13. What are the three types of determinism?

  • Scientific, Theological, Psychological
  • Psychicism, Theologism, Psychologism
  • Scientific, Religious, Sociological

14. Libitarianism is reductionist

  • True
  • False, hard determinism is
  • False, none of the approaches are

15. Which of the following is a strength of libitarianism?

  • Christians such as Calvin argue for predestination
  • Face value validity
  • Science suggests we do not have free will

16. Who said "Man is not free not to be free" and thought free will was a burden? (L)

  • Sartre
  • Locke
  • Spinoza
  • Freud

17. Which of the following is the best description of hard determinism?

  • We have free will
  • It is the same as predestination
  • We have no free will and everything is predetermined
  • We have free will, however some factors influence our choices greatly meaning we are likely to proceed with a particular course of action but can do otherwise.g. childhood upbringing

18. Which of the following is the most accurate description of soft determinism/ compatiblism?

  • We have free will, however internal/ external factors influence our choices meaning we are likely to proceed with a particular course of action but can do otherwise e.g. having criminal parents makes one likely to become criminal too, but one can not
  • We have no free will and everything is predetermined
  • We have complete free will
  • It is the same as predestination

19. Sartre said; "In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity." (HD)

  • False, kevin said this (the idea everything has a cause, even if that cause is not known)
  • False, Skinner said this ((the idea everything has a cause, even if that cause is not known)
  • False, Spinoza said this (the idea everything has a cause, even if that cause is not known)
  • True (the idea everything has a cause, even if that cause is not known)

20. Who said "ought implies can" and what is meant by this? (SD)

  • Freud - that one is meant to do something regardless of their capabilities
  • Kant - that one is only meant to do what they are capable of doing
  • Cant - that one is only meant to do what they are capable of doing