Lexicon of Arguments

 

McGinn I 135
Domestication Theory/McGinn: The decision connection only applies as a special case of domestication attempts, of a natural connection of a different kind, whereas the modality concerned is not fundamentally different from other modalities. Approximation to an independent model of the course of action.
Such reductivist experiments can
a) be deterministic (Davidson) or
b) indeterministic.
McGinn I 135
Davidson/Domestication Theory/McGinn: previous world conditions are a causally sufficient condition for a specific decision. Freedom is then a certain kind of causal series, namely, in which there is a corresponding set of mental precursors. >Initial conditions, >Free will, >Anomalous monism.
Freedom is that desires and beliefs cause causal effects.
McGinnVsDavidson: makes no sense to the concept of freedom of action, for it looks as if it is of the same kind as any other causality.
The corresponding causality is then not an "event causality" but an "action causality". >Actions/Davidson.