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Determinism as True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism as Both False, and the Real Problem (Popularity:  )
(Score: 18.13)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/detkanebook.html
A critique of the view that quantum theory disproves determinism, and an argument that freedom is simultaneously compatible and incompatible with determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
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Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism - Prof. Norman Swartz (Popularity: )
(Score: 17.81)
http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/freewill1.htm
Discusses the various problems raised by different concepts of determinism, and presents an argument that physical determinism is compatible with free will.
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A Critique (Popularity: )
(Score: 15.26)
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/njp0001.html
A 2001 student paper by Neil Parr-Davies. Compares the linguistic determinism of Benjamin Lee Whorf with technological determinism, represented by Marshall McLuhan.
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Technological Determinism (Popularity: )
(Score: 14.33)
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tecdet.html
Introduction to technological determinism written by Daniel Chandler.
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The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website (Popularity: )
(Score: 14.08)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm
A comprehensive collection of important papers on the philosophy of free will, freedom and determinism. By Prof. Ted Honderich.
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The Reasoned Directory (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.89)
http://www.reasoned.org/dir/philo.htm
Links in areas including aesthetics, determinism, epistemology, existentialism, objectivism, pantheism.
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Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and the Smart Aleck (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.69)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted6.htm
Ted Honderich on how freedom and determinism are really related, with special attention to Richard Double's views.
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Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility - The Whole Thing in Brief (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.59)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted12.htm
Ted Honderich's (still quite long) summary of a deterministic philosophy of mind, and its consequences for our fundamental attitudes.
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Who's Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.50)
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/kitdraft.htm
A chapter from the 'The Free Will Handbook' (edited by Robert Kane, 2002) by Christopher Taylor and Daniel Dennett.
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Gersonides (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.41)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gersonides/
Article by Tamar Rudovsky from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Provides a bibliography, in addition to discussions of this philosopher's life, work and doctrine of astrological determinism.
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Freedom and Determinism (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.39)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwstrawson1.htm
Essay by Strawson, contending that the question of free will is a question of attitude.
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Technological Determinism and Social Choice (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.25)
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/cis/cis4.html
The aim of this page is to explore in greater depth the controversy as to how far technology does, or does not, condition social change.
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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.25)
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/worldtour99/sapirwhorf.html
1999 overview of the history and development of the theories of linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity. By Rebecca Ash.
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Determinism (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.23)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04756c.htm
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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Honderich, Ted (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.23)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/
Home page of this philosopher of mind (and of politics), giving access to his latest thought on the nature of consciousness as existence, and on the free-will versus determinism issue (amongst other things).
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.14)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/
Randolph Clarke's survey of theories of freedom according to which it is inconsistent with causal determinism.
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For Determinism in a Way, And Also Indeterminism (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.14)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwVariousKant.htm
Selections on the topic from the Critiques of Pure and Practical Reason, edited by Ted Honderich. "I have improved on Kant's paragraphing."
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Interview: Ted Peters (Popularity: )
(Score: 8.43)
http://www.counterbalance.org/transcript/ted-body.html
ELCA seminary professor discusses genetic determinism, evolution, genetic engineering, and human purpose and direction and the need for "the theological and genetic communities to be talking to each other."
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Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.60)
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.html
Book review of "Alas Poor Darwin", by Robert Kurzban. Assesses five charges against evolutionary psychology: genetic determinism, panadaptationism, unfalsifiable hypotheses, proximate explanations, and ideological bias.
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Probabilistic Causation (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.59)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-probabilistic/
"Probabilistic Causation" designates a group of philosophical theories that aim to characterize the relationship between cause and effect using the tools of probability theory. A primary motivation for the development of such theories is the ...
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