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Determinism is the view that every event, including human cognition, behavior, decision, and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. With numerous historical debates...
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Causal determinism is, roughly speaking, the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature. The idea is ancient, but first became subject to clarification and mathematical analysis in the eighteenth century.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/
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The main perceived threats to our freedom of will are various alleged determinisms: physical/causal; psychological; biological; theological. For each variety of determinism, there are philosophers who (i) deny its reality, either because of the existence of free will or on independent grounds;
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
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Determinism is a name employed by writers, especially since J. Stuart Mill, to denote the philosophical theory which holds — in opposition to the doctrine of free will — that all man's volitions are invariably determined by pre-existing circumstances.
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www.newadvent.org/cathen/04756c.htm
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A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich. ... THE DETERMINISM AND FREEDOM PHILOSOPHY WEBSITE ; edited by Ted Honderich...
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www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm
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FREE WILL, DETERMINISM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY -- THE WHOLE THING IN BRIEF ... This sums up a lot of T.H.'s past words elsewhere -- in the very large book A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-Hopes and also the first edition of How Free Are You?
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www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted12.htm
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The (Alleged) Problem of Free Will and Determinism is a Modal Fallacy ... For an expansion of the discussion of Sections 2-5 (Logical Determinism, Epistemic Determinism, and Modal Concepts) see "Foreknowledge and Free Will", in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm
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A discussion of free will and determinism ... The Free Will/Determinism Paradox ... Another attempt at resolution of the free will/determinism paradox has evolved from the incorporation of probability theory into modern physics. Probability theory is based upon the concept that outcomes of events can be confined within a set...
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www.futureperspective.com/free.htm
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