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Article #8444Re: Free will and responsibility.
From: Michael Ellis
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1989 04:57
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1989 04:57
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> Brian Colfer
>When I was an undergraduate many years ago my Prof. Kirk Gable told me that
>my concerns about free will were fundamentally a waste of time. One of
>his reasons were that if behaviorism works as an acurate model for how we
>live our lives and proves useful for helping people in education, mental
>health and other similar endevours then who cares about free will.
>Well, in a sense he's right but I always enjoy discussions about the
>fundamental nature of humanity.
There are many good reasons for considering free will to be a waste
of time. There are far fewer reasons for saying the same about
responsibility. Behaviorism has little or nothing substantive
to offer on either of these questions.
-michael
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!shelby!unix!chips2.sri.com!ellis From: ellis@chips2.sri.com (Michael Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Free will and responsibility. Keywords: Libertarianism, behaviorism , existentialism Message-ID: <146@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 12 Jun 89 04:57:35 GMT References: <10333@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <3850@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <52019@linus.UUCP> <1309@lzfme.att.com> <1966@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <528@orawest.UUCP> <1979@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <53788@linus.UUCP> <32091@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <2008@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Reply-To: ellis@chips2.sri.com.UUCP (Michael Ellis) Organization: SRI International Lines: 16