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Genetic Predisposition as Reflected in The Moral Animal

This ten paper paper broaches the concept of biological determinism as it is perceived by Robert Wright. Evolutionary physiology ...

Biological Determinism

In three page this paper examines biological determinism in a brief overview that references Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. ...

Biology as a Determinant of Action

The writer discusses the role genetics plays in determining behavior, and indicates that while social models and genetics together...

New Darwinist Theories on Biological Determinism

In five pages this paper examines biological determinism from the perspectives of recent Darwinist theories and how justice is onl...

4 Theories of Criminology

illegal activity even when they are wholly aware of what is right and wrong. This accepted justification of antisocial behavior r...

Determinism and Free Will

as long as there are no restrictions that keep us from doing so. We are, in other words, only as free as our environment and reali...

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Criminological Theories

commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...

Determinism Perspectives, Quantum vs. Laplacian

of classical mechanics (Bradley, 2002). From this point in history onward, scientists viewed the universe from a distinctly differ...

Can Free Will And Determinism Coexist?

life progresses and is, therefore, under the guidance of peripheral forces. Rachel (2004) asserts mankinds business on eart...

Water and its Centrality to Life

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at water from a biological perspective. The biological uses of water are outlined, as w...

Public Health and Bioterrorism

In seven pages biological warfare is discussed in terms of availability, how the United States has become vulnerable to such attac...

A Global Perspective on Biological Weapons

The writer considers the potential threat of biological weapons in the global community. The paper describes the effect of such we...

Biological Warfare and Anthrax

The biological warfare potential of Bacillus anthracis bacteria is examined in eleven pages and includes epidemiology, current res...

International Law and Biological Warfare

agreed - each believing they would win their cases - but it is rare that both nations will continue to uphold that agreement throu...

Transgenderism: A Psychological Disorder

Manual (DSM) III, transgenderism has long been described as a psychological problem due in great part to the manner by which child...

Scientific Determinism: Undermines Basic Principles?

is entirely necessitated, as the motions of any mechanism must be. Thus the causes of the human mechanisms choices and actions ar...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Social Informatics

on social development, the hard model is that which states technology is the dominant impact on social development (Pacey, 1983, C...

James/Determinism & Descartes/Radical Doubt

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

The Free Will Problem

determinism. It is often the case that philosophers see determinism as being the opposite of freedom or free will. That is, most ...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Sartre: We Are Condemned To Be Free

a stream continue forth long past ones gaze. People use responsibility for myriad reasons: to further their good character; to es...

Why Psychology Is Considered A Science

"mental life contains no independent elements but different moments mutually implicating each other in the whole" (p. 42). ...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Hard Determinism and B.F. Skinner

process. The psychologist, categorized second behind Sigmund Freud as the worlds most profound figure in the field, was initially...

Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...

Bystander Behaviors and Helping

a priority - this does not automatically mean, though, that ones actions will be unhelpful, simply that they are not motivated by ...

History and the Philosophies of Karl Marx

used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...