PHIL 2650

Free Will and Responsibility

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Course Description

Examines whether our actions and choices are free and whether or to what extent we can be held responsible for them. Includes the threat to freedom posed by the possibility of scientific explanations of our behavior and by psychoanalysis, the concept of compulsion, moral and legal responsibility, and the nature of human action. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.


  • Jesse Newton

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    2.00

     GPA

    3.32

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    Last Taught

    Spring 2014

  • Brie Gertler

     Rating

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    3.00

     GPA

    3.21

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    Last Taught

    Fall 2017

  • Benjamin Bagley

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     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.59

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    Last Taught

    Spring 2020

  • Stacie Thyrion

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     GPA

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    Last Taught

    Fall 2017

  • Sheung Lam

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     Difficulty

     GPA

     Sections

    Last Taught

    Spring 2014

  • Ethan Butt

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     Difficulty

     GPA

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    Last Taught

    Spring 2020