1. According to d'Holbach, all the mental and moral attributes that people think are evidence for an immaterial soul are in fact _____.
ethereal
purely intellectual
undetermined
purely physical and natural
2. According to d'Holbach, people always act according to _____.
necessary natural laws
undertermined will
dictates of the soul
free choices
3. According to James, indeterminism allows that the world has _____.
ambiguous possibilities
no shadow of turning
a fixed future
no ambiguous possibilities
4. The doctrine that every event is determined or necessitated by preceding events and the laws of nature is known as _____.
compatibilism
hard determinism
libertarianism
determinism
5. The challenge of reconciling determinism with our intuitions or ideas about personal freedom is known as _____.
the problem of indeterminism
the problem of free will
the determinism problem
the libertarian dilemma
6. The movies Gattaca and A Clockwork Orange dramatize the fear of _____.
violence
an open future
a pleasurable future
a predetermined existence
7. If our actions are not free in any important sense, it is difficult to see how we could be _____.
the subject of accurate predictions
held morally responsible for what we do
human
determined by outside forces
8. Many who reject the notion of free will think that punishing people for crimes makes no sense. They think that instead of punishing criminals, we should _____.
ostracize them
leave them to their own devices
terminate them
try to modify their behavior
9. The view that no one has free will is called _____.
hard determinism
determinism
determination
soft libertarianism
10. The view that what will be will be, and no human actions can change it, is known as _____.
fatalism
soft determinsim
determinism
futurism
11. The branch of science that provides a counterexample to the notion that every event has a cause is known as _____.
chaos theory
quantum physics
relativity theory
quantum computing
12. The author of The Will to Believe and The Varieties of Religious Experience is _____.
William James
W. T. Stace
Richard Taylor
Jean-Paul Sartre
13. True or False? D'Holbach says that man's life is a course that nature compels him to take without deviation.
True
False
14. True or False? D'Holbach's view is that science does not preclude the notion of free will.
True
False
15. True or False? D'Holbach asserts that when we deliberate about a choice, our decision is free and undetermined.
True
False
16. True or False? James says that determinism professes that those parts of the universe already laid down absolutely decree what the other parts shall be.
True
False
17. True or False? William James is a fatalist.
True
False
18. Briefly explain, in your own words, the objections to James's indeterminism that are discussed in your text.
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