PHIL 140. Free Will (4 units)
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Description
Investigation into the nature of free will, including arguments for and against its compatibility with a scientific picture of the world and competing accounts of the metaphysics of free will. Possible topics include disputes about the nature of free will; what it is for agents to cause actions; the nature of abilities or capacities to act; the relevance of neuroscience to accounts of free will; whether free will skepticism is a stable view; and experimental research on free will. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Prerequisite courses
PHIL 140 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have PHIL 140 as a prerequisite.