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Headings: Class Four: Soft Determinism and Indeterminism
Class Four: Soft Determinism and Indeterminism
Soft Determinism (also called Compatibilism and Self-determinism):
Indeterminism
William James: Pragmatism

Content: Indeterminism
According to Indeterminism, certain decisions and acts (namely, "free" ones) have nothing that causes them to occur; they are pure chance events. They are not causally determined by anything prior to their occurrence. The assumption that all events in nature are determined is unwarranted; indeed, chance events are perhaps even necessary to account for the diversity of things in the universe. In addition, current theoretical physics recognizes that subatomic events occur in completely random and (in principle) unpredictable ways. Since not every event is predictable, and since a completely caused  (determined) event would be predictable, not every event is caused. Such indeterminacy opens up the possibility that we can really affect the future; and in this way we can be free and morally responsible. Objections :