 | Chapter Objectives
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After reading this chapter, you should be able to
- recognize the relevance of determinism for legal and moral responsibility.
- evaluate the evidence cited in support of determinism.
- state the various theories of free action.
- describe the thought experiments that have been used to test them.
- evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the various theories of free action.
- define causal determinism, causal indeterminism, compatibilism, incompatibilism, first-order desire, and second-order desire.
- formulate your own view of how free actions are possible (or why they are impossible).
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