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DEFENDING COMPATIBILISM: A PARADIGM CASE ARGUMENT
by
Xiaoyu Zhu
_______________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PHILOSOPHY)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Xiaoyu Zhu
Object Description
| Title | Defending compatibilism: a paradigm case argument |
| Author | Zhu, Xiaoyu |
| Author email | sherri.zhu@gmail.com; sherri_zhu@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-10-01 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-11-02 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Vihvelin, Kadri |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Levin, Janet Albertson, David |
| Abstract | The objective of this study is to solve the free will/determinism problem by defending a new form of compatibilism. Unlike most classical and contemporary compatibilists, the author takes the Paradigm Case Argument (PCA) strategy instead of the analysis strategy to defend compatibilism. She endeavors to offer a correct conceptual analysis of free will as well as an adequate response to the incompatibilist challenge.; While the analysis compatibilist wishes to discover conditions that are both necessary and sufficient for applying the concept of free will, the PCA compatibilist believes that there is no such thing for free will because not all correct uses of the concept of free will have something in common. The author distinguishes two versions of PCA, namely, PCA as Ostensive Teaching and PCA as Elucidation. She rejects the former and advocates the latter because the latter regards paradigm cases of free will as conceptual elucidations of free will while the former understands them as instances.; According to the author, the correct account of free will is a conceptual analysisof free will consisted of the explanations of paradigmatic examples to which free will andits surrounding concepts are correctly applied. |
| Keyword | free will; determinism; compatibilism; incompatibilism; paradigm case argument |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2704 |
| Rights | Zhu, Xiaoyu |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Zhu-3326 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Zhu-3326.pdf |
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| Full text | DEFENDING COMPATIBILISM: A PARADIGM CASE ARGUMENT by Xiaoyu Zhu _______________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHILOSOPHY) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Xiaoyu Zhu |
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