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Compatibilism Supporting Arguments

then free will itself is not possible (Bass, 2002). This does not relate to the argument of the implausibility of free will and d...

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 ...

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 ...

3 Technology Questions

has strong a weak forms (Cross et al, 1974). Question 2 The open source software movement may be seen in relation to the way th...

Determinism and Free Will

only capable of the action, but capable of free action. The man had control over the act; the dog did not. However, just the oppo...

Fictional Literature, Determinism, and Free Will

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

Communications Theory and Media Change

but which are also "cumulative and significant" (Chandler, 1995). According to cultivation theory analysts, television viewing p...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Social Informatics

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

Why Psychology Is Considered A Science

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

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...

Theory of Technological Determinism

In eleven pages this paper examines technological determinism in this consideration of 3 articles which contain supporting argumen...

Debate Regarding Determinism versus Free Will

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical debate regarding determinism versus free will with the use of the texts Donald...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

Determinism, Free Will, and the Fate of Humanity

by the reasons and values which occupy the highest, conscious level of our organismic structure" (Bissell, no date, p. indexmm1.ht...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Richard Taylor, Fatalism, and Determinism

states that all events are reliant on previous events (Honderich 194). In other words, any event is an effect of a prior series of...

Society and Free Will

In three pages this paper exmaines individual responsibility and social determinism as discussed in articles written by Walter Sta...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In nine pages this research paper compares these two works in terms of how they represent free will and determinism philosophies. ...

Dialectic Determinism in The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

In eight pages The Communist Manifesto and its as well as other works' representation of the dialectic determinism theory are disc...

Free Will or Determinism in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that instead of free will Oedipus is instead controlled by determinism in this tragic play by Soph...

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. ...

Analysis of the Determinism Philosophy

In five pages this research paper analyzes determinism as it was developed through the writings of Baruch Spinoza, B.F. Skinner, a...

Cultural and Societal Determinism and the Ties That Bind Latino Students

"Hispanic Americans are divided on the issue of bilingual education and its efficacy in assisting student learning. While some ar...