Ethics Chapter 6 Freedom vs determinism

Ethics Chapter 6 Freedom vs determinism

T/F Determinism can be understood to mean that there is no uncaused event.

·         True

 

T/F Religious determinism is the idea that our lives are predestined.

 

·         True

 

T/F Ivan Pavlov is famous for his experiments with human beings, getting them to salivate at the sound of a bell.

 

·         False

 

T/F B.F. Skinner based his behavioral theories on the groundbreaking work of Heisenberg.

 

·         False

 

T/F Fatalism is the view that although things are fixed and predetermined, your behavior still makes a difference.

 

·         False

 

T/F Indeterminism is the idea that some events, especially regarding human decision making, are uncaused. If some human decisions are uncaused then nobody is responsible for them.

 

·         True

 

T/F Hard determinism maintains that if all events are caused there is no freedom.

 

·         True

 

T/F Soft determinism is the view that all events are caused, but there is no human freedom.

 

·         True

 

T/F According to the author of the text, one problem with hard determinists is their inaccurate use of language

 

·         True

 

T/F Soft determinism is the only acceptable theory because it shows that freedom is impossible.

 

·         False

 

Determinism means the same thing as __________.

a.) fatalism
b.) destiny
c.) universal causation
d.) chance

 

·         C.) Universal causation

 

The greatest exponent of physical determinism was

a.) John Calvin
b.) Sir Isaac Newton
c.) Charles Darwin
d.) George Hegel

 

·         B.) Sir Isaac Newton

 

The great exponent of economic and social determinism was ____________.

a.) Adam Smith
b.) Karl Marx
c.) John Hospers
d.) William James

 

·         B.) Karl Marx

 

If there are external causes for everything you do, you are a __________.

a.) hard determinist
b.) soft determinist
c.) indeterminist
d.) Fatalist

 

·         Hard determinist

 

Who argued that humans are physical beings conditioned by their social, cultural, and natural environments?

a.) Karl Marx
b.) Sigmund Frued
c.) B.F. Skinner
d.) Henri Bergson

 

·         C.) B.F. Skinner

 

Who, according to the authors of the text, is the most prominent exponent of indeterminism?

a.) William James
b.) Henry Ford
c.) Sigmund Freud
d.) Karl Marx

 

·         William James

 

All events are caused but some are caused by human beings is the doctrine of ___________.

a.) Hard determinism
b.) soft determinism
c.) soft indeterminism
d.) hard indeterminism

 

·         B.) Soft determinism

 

Indeterminism is the belief that ___________.

a.) some things are caused
b.) call things are caused
c.) nothing is caused
d.) nothing is caused except human actions

 

·         Some things are caused

 

Who said that consciousness is "intentional"?

a.) Sigmund Freud
b.) Ivan Pavlov
c.) Fred Flintstone
d.) Edmund Husserl

 

·         D

 

Who would argue that even if you are crippled or blind how you choose to respond to that is freedom?

a.) B.F. Skinner
b.) Jean-Paul Sartre
c.) Paul Churchland
d.) Isaac Newton

 

·         B