Cal Poly, SLO: PHIL 335 (Midterm) A+ GRADED

Why punish? correct answers Restore justice, shape behavior, stop behavior, hold perpetrators responsible, decrease crime, etc. Why not insanity cases? correct answers Cost of treatment vs. prison (how much money can we justify spending on one insane person?), responsible for self (knowledge of committing a crime vs. intent), objectivity (who do we judge it?). How could anyone who commits a major crime be sane? Determinism correct answers Cause of events is absolutely predictable, based on a biological predisposition. The physical universe is predetermined. Humans don't have agency with their actions and therefore lack free-will. Problem of Mental Causation correct answers How can something not physical (like a soul) move something physical (like a body). - Argument for determinism. Determinism and Criminals correct answers If determinism is true, we should not distinguish so sharply citizens from criminals because we are equally responsible. In other words, no one is responsible. Strawson - If determinism is true, we have two options: correct answers Optimism (we can still hold people responsible, Strawson likes this idea best), and Pessimism (we can no longer hold people responsible). Strawson's Question correct answers How would the truth of determinism cause me to change my social relationships with family, friends, etc.? - Believes that regardless of conclusions, morality should still stand. Expressivism correct answers Theory that determinism is all about - Sensitive to what other's actions communicate to us, we care about how other think about us. Resentment correct answers We are angry that other people are not wishing us well or they have a lack of moral regard. Strawson - Personal Reactive Attitudes correct answers Reactions to another person's attitudes displayed by his or her actions (often resentment or gratitude). Gratitude correct answers We are positive because people are wishing us well or they have moral regard. Strawson - Exemption of PRA's? correct answers Apology, when we realize offender's didn't actually have ill will and we no longer resent them, accidents, small offenses, and when our offenders are not "normal" agents who we can not hold morally responsible.