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Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e
Theodore Schick, Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn

Free Will and Determinism
The Mother of Invention: Freedom as Necessity

Multiple Choice



1

According to traditional compatibilism
A)free actions and causal indeterminism are compatible.
B)free actions and causal determinism are compatible.
C)causal determinism and libertarianism are compatible.
D)free actions and external restraint are compatible.
2

According to traditional compatibilism, a free action
A)must be caused by one's will.
B)must not be externally constrained.
C)must have a cause.
D)all of the above.
3

If your actions are caused by your will, and if they are not externally constrained, then
A)your actions can still fail to be free.
B)your actions are free.
C)your actions are both free and unfree.
D)your choices are up to you.
4

According to hierarchical compatibilism, a free action
A)is one performed in response to first-order desires.
B)is caused by second-order volitions that one decisively identified with.
C)is impossible unless one can do otherwise.
D)can be induced by an ingenious physiologist.
5

Self-conscious beings
A)are unaware of first-order desires.
B)can have desires about first-order desires.
C)cannot have both first-order and second-order desires.
D)are unaware of second-order desires.