First Assignment

1.  As soon as you can, please read the first half of the Cunningham book.

2.  Consider the importance of intention behind an act.  Does it change the meaning of the act (or its result) if it had been executed with intention or as a mistake?  

• Write a list of what arguments first come to you.

• (e.g. First and second degree murder must have been made to draw a distinction between intentions, right?) OR  

• (e.g.  Claiming to be able to punish people based on their "intention," in the creation of hate speech/crimes laws. )("MY crime has a special reason.  THAT guy got beat to death for noreason. YOU got beat to death "because..."     HIS death was meaningless.  But yours was full of special meaning.")

• Watch this link:  http://youtu.be/pCofmZlC72g

• Consider what you've heard.
• Write a reaction paper considering the challenge of neuroscience to free will, two pages.
• Now look at the original question again, and this time answer it in paragraph form.  It's okay if your reasoning is the same or if it's different.  It's the thinking (asking yourself lots of questions) that we're after.

Two pages, Five pages.  Due Friday before midnight.

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