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Starting My Dissertation

by BDT100 @ 2008-07-10 - 23:28:37

I put this off for a bit. I've been working very rarely on this for about 18 months, but today I came to look at what work I had previously done and realised it had mostly been in my head and in documents I have since deleted. So today I have been working out what I originally intended to do and what is now the best strategy. What I have so far ascertained is that I am going to need to provide long, indepth and justified analyses of the following concepts:

Free Will
Moral Responsibility
Causation
Right/Wrong
Decision theory

For four of those I believe I am proposing an analysis that has not previously been argued for, or rather at least not to my knowledge (which means it blatantly has been). I think I'll be using a form of Kantian Utilitarianism in my analysis of Right and Wrong, which I think is the most standard and commonsensical attitude to ethics.

I'm going to be defining Free Will as a parameter of decision theory which will involve adding another dimension to that, which I might start calling Free Decision Theory. I'll be using a semi-Lewisean analysis of causation, something that Lewis never mentioned but I don't think he would have a problem with. he probably would've given the same analysis as me under the circumstances. (Had he written much about Free Will)

Moral responsibility is going to be the most problematic concept I will need to demogrify. (I just googled that word to see if it was correct and it only returned 4 results. I'm sure it is a word though, even if spelt incorrectly but Google suggested to me "demagnify"?!) It's going to be a mish-mash of the concepts of free will, causation and utility, so will need to work up to it.

Free Will has probably the most radical analysis I am giving in the paper, hopefully with its very own faintly absurd logical formulas with lots of juicy factors.

I will be referring quite a lot to psychological papers on the value of choice, and it's quite important I investigate the relationship between choice and Free Will.


 
 

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