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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Grice's caveat (on 'free-will' analysis)

By JLS
for the GC

The crucial passage in "Actions and Events" (same title as Warnock's so much earier lecture, in Pears, "Freedom of the will", incidentally), by Grice, then, remains:

"Any attempt to remedy the
situation by resorting to the
introduction of CHANCE [Greek tukhe] or
causal indetermination will only infuriate
the scientist without aiding the
moral philosopher."
(Grice, 1986, "Actions and Events",
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, p. 34)

--- In particular: how not make the above analytic? What if the scientist is not infuriated, and the moral philosopher aided?

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