Choose one of the following questions and respond to it:   …

Choose one of the following questions and respond to it:    A. What is hard determinism? Give an argument for this view. Which premise of the argument would a compatibilist deny? Which premise of the argument would a libertarian deny? Critically evaluate the compatibilist and the libertarian responses. B.  Explain the alleged threat of situational influences for free will and critically evaluate it. To give a full answer to this question, you need to: Explain what situational influences are and give examples of them. Explain why situational influences might pose a problem for free will by giving an argument that assumes that there are situational influences and concludes that free will does not exist. Critically evaluate the alleged problem by critically evaluating the argument.

Complete the following line from your reading of Hume’s Enqu…

Complete the following line from your reading of Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: I shall venture to affirm, as a general proposition, which admits of no exception, that the knowledge of this relation is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori; but arises entirely from ___________, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other. 

   Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift…

   Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten’d    …                           … While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,           We see into the life of things

It was after football, when he’d drunk a peg, He thought h…

It was after football, when he’d drunk a peg, He thought he’d better join.—He wonders why. Someone had said he’d look a god in kilts, That’s why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg, Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts He asked to join. He didn’t have to beg; Smiling they wrote his lie: aged nineteen years.