Self-Assessment-Questions (SAQ)

Identify the following:

1. The ability to control one’s choices and actions. FREE WILL

2. The status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or
omission, in accordance with one's moral obligation. MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
3. The belief that human actions are freely chosen. LIBERTARIAN FREE WILL
4. It states that an action is free only if the person could have done otherwise.
PRINCIPLE OF ALTERNATE POSSIBILITIES
5. The belief that that all events are caused by past events such that nothing other
than what does occur could occur. HARD DETERMINISM
6. It states that no physical event can occur without having been caused by a
previous physical event. EVENT CAUSATION
7. It states that a mind can start a whole chain of causality that wasn’t caused by
anything else. AGENT CAUSATION
8. He believed that everything that’s happening right now is the result of an
unbroken chain of events. BARON D’HOLBACH
9. The view that all parts of the world and even our own experience can be traced
back to one singular event. REDUCTIONISM
10. The belief that the physical world is deterministic, but if human actions are self-
determined, these actions are actually free. COMPATIBILISTS
11. He believed that a person is responsible for an action even if he could not have
done otherwise as long as the decision to act comes internally. HARRY
FRANKFURT
12. She pointed out that, as social animals, we can’t help but hold people
accountable, and assign either praise or blame for their actions.
PATRICIA CHURCHLAND
13. The philosopher who stated that “ought implies can”. IMMANUEL KANT
14. The philosopher who defined free will as doing what you want to do (even if
wants are already fixed or determined). DAVID HUME
15. A principle in moral responsibility which states that external factors can affect the
moral quality of human actions. MORAL LUCK
16. Moral luck that has to do with our own disposition or personality. CONSTITUTIVE
LUCK
17. Moral luck that relates to the situation you find yourself in. CIRCUMSTANTIAL
LUCK
18. Moral luck that relates to the way your actions actually turn out. RESULTANT
LUCK
19. Moral luck that relates to how one is determined by antecedent circumstances.
CAUSAL LUCK
20. The philosopher who stated that thoughts and intentions emerge from
background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no
conscious control. SAM HARRIS