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Mind Map by lauren_walji, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lauren_walji
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Implications of determinism
- See crime as an illness -
due to upbringing. Do not
blame someone for
catching flu. Social
conditioning in same way
cannot be blamed
- Can't punish criminals
- Can still advocate praise,
blame and punishment as
causes to determine desired
behaviour. To condition.
strengthen causal connection
to desirable behaviour.
neurones sensitive to reward
and punishment
- Can still advocate praise,
blame and punishment as
causes to determine desired
behaviour. To condition.
strengthen causal connection
to desirable behaviour.
neurones sensitive to reward
and punishment
- Can't punish criminals
- Ought implies can
- If we say a person ought to
have done something -
precondition is that they must
have been able to do it
- But from determinism i am only ever going
to take one course of action and cannot do
otherwise for psychological or sociological
reasons - so if i cant have done otherwise
then pointless to say ought to have done
otherwise
- Cant be held responsible
for anything, pos nor neg.
- Cant be held responsible
for anything, pos nor neg.
- But from determinism i am only ever going
to take one course of action and cannot do
otherwise for psychological or sociological
reasons - so if i cant have done otherwise
then pointless to say ought to have done
otherwise
- However - determinism fails to
account for feelings of
remorse; implies we could
have done otherwise
- If we say a person ought to
have done something -
precondition is that they must
have been able to do it
- Undermines rationality
- Reason disappears - e.g. theory of
evolution; believe in it - read books, have
discussions, see fossils - on basis of
evidence i judge theory to be true,
- BUT is determinism true i am causally
determined to have this belief - do not
freely judge - cannot have believed
otherwise
- So i dont form an idea on the basis of
reasons i consider - whole idea of reason
seems to dissapear
- So i dont form an idea on the basis of
reasons i consider - whole idea of reason
seems to dissapear
- BUT is determinism true i am causally
determined to have this belief - do not
freely judge - cannot have believed
otherwise
- Give someone a reason is
'causes' someone to believe or
not - no making up mind. No
good or bad arguments only
those that do or dont cause belief
- IF determinism true no such
thing as reasoning - but
determinism says there is
reasoning - determinism must
be false
- Reason disappears - e.g. theory of
evolution; believe in it - read books, have
discussions, see fossils - on basis of
evidence i judge theory to be true,
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