Introduction to Philosophy: Overhead

Introduction to Philosophy	Notes	This is not a substitute for coming to class	Richard Lee
Philosophy 2003 C 001	Notes	Copyright © 1999, Richard Lee	Spring 1999

Taylor's Deliberation Argument (P 361a)

1. We can deliberate about whether we will do something.
2. If it is possible to know beforehand what we will do, then we cannot deliberate about whether we will do it.
3. If determinism is true, then it is possible to know beforehand what we will do.
4. Determinism is false.

Richard Lee, rlee@comp.uark.edu, last modified: 20 April 1999

	1.	We can deliberate about whether we will do something.
	2.	If it is possible to know beforehand what we will do, then we cannot deliberate about whether we will do it.
	3.	If determinism is true, then it is possible to know beforehand what we will do.
	4.	Determinism is false.