Vital Homework except for those named Jake and wearing stripy pullovers

Free Will & Determinism

1. Why do neither theories of ‘randomness’ or quantum physics support the libertarian case for human beings as self-determining  / autonomous agents?
2. How does Cartesian dualism account for free will? And how does Gilbert Ryle’s notion of ‘the ghost in the machine’ attack Descartes’ claim? 
3. Explain Sartre’s idea of ‘the gap’ - what it is and how it allows for free will. 
4. Why might it be true to say that Sartre’s emphasis is on the future?
5. Why does Patricia Churchland attack libertarian attempt to find ‘causal vacuums’ as ‘flat earth’ philosophy? 

Also I've put a lot of stuff on here recently that I think will help you get some of these ideas straight. Please read it. Above all you must listen to theses podcasts:
Thomas Pink on Free will at  http://cdn1.libsyn.com/philosophybites/PinkMixSes.mp3?nvb=20090516103152&nva=20090517104152&t=05fb3f41be06ea130b9b1


and David Papineau on Physicalism at  http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=242858