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Topic: Hard determinism

	Free will - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Determinism is the view that all events are the necessary results of previous causes, that everything that happens has a cause.
		Determinism holds that each state of affairs is entirely necessitated and thus determined by the states of affairs that preceded it.
		Thus, they argue that determinism does not matter; what matters is that individuals' choices are the results of their own desires and preferences, and are not overridden by some external (or even internal) force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_will (7485 words)

	Determinism in Reformed Theology, Calvinism
		They publically proclaim determinism, but are in fact unregenerate, having still a living heart of freewill moral thinking at their core -- a kind of wolf in sheep's clothing, better seen as a goat in sheep's clothing (freewill thinking with an outer layer of no-free-will assertion).
		Mere rational affirmation of determinism doesn't run nearly as deep as experiential regeneration in which comprehension of hard determinism goes all the way down to the inner core or heart of thinking, to the extent that determinism kills the beast, the inner dragon, and exorcises the demon of freewill-type thinking.
		Determinism wins on all fronts: in rational philosophy; in mystic religion; in classic literature; and in official religion -- but in all of these, it is a struggle to deeply comprehend and grasp and affirm determinism, down to the heart of one's thinking.
	www.egodeath.com /DeterminismReformedTheolCalvinism.htm (9134 words)

	Arguments for Incompatibilism
		Determinism is a thesis about the kind of laws that govern a world; it says nothing about whether these laws are knowable by finite beings, let alone whether they could, even in principle, be used to predict all future events.
		A hard determinist is an incompatibilist who believes that determinism is true (or, perhaps, believes that it is close enough to being true so far as we are concerned, in the ways relevant to free will) and because of this we lack free will (Holbach 1770, Darrow 1924).
		Determinism (without these additional assumptions) does not imply that our “journey” through life is like moving down a road; the contrast between determinism and non-determinism is not the contrast between traveling on a branching road and traveling on a road with no branches.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /entries/incompatibilism-arguments (9931 words)

	Overcoming Objections for Hard Determinism (predestination).
		Determinism is the belief that all events, including human choices are determined or caused by another.
		Only hard determinism is incompatible with free choice or secondary causality of a human free agent.
		For determinism to be true, there would have to be a rational basis for their thought.
	www.ovrlnd.com /Apologetics/Determinism.html (1527 words)

	The Evidential Problem of Evil [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The evidential problem of evil is the problem of determining whether and (if so) to what extent the existence of evil (or certain instances, kinds, quantities, or distributions of evil) constitutes evidence against the existence of God, that is to say, a being perfect in power, knowledge and goodness.
		By contrast, the theoretical problem of evil is the purely ‘intellectual’ matter of determining what impact, if any, the existence of evil has on the truth-value or the epistemic status of theistic belief.
		The aim is to then determine what happens to the probability value of ‘God exists’ once we consider the evidence generated by our observations of the various evils in our world.
	www.iep.utm.edu /e/evil-evi.htm (12194 words)

	Funding Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thus "psychological egoism," "hard determinism" and "subjective idealism" are devoid of meaning.
		Conversely, when Soulé proclaims the equilibrium model a "myth," and Pickett announces that this model has been "demolished," we are entitled to ask them what we would expect to find in nature if, contrary to their claims (thus allegedly contrary to fact), they were wrong, and the Odum brothers were right.
		In fact, they logically precede empirical investigation, for, as the Sen. East example illustrates, one can not go into the field of empirical research without a prior understanding of what one is looking for, and of what will and will not validate their hypotheses.
	gadfly.igc.org /ecology/proposal.htm (9648 words)

	Free Will, Bondage of the Will Reformed Theology
		yet all, in respect of his decree, and by his powerful working, determined to this or that effect in particular; not that they are compelled to do this, or hindered from doing that, but are inclined and disposed to do this or that, according to their proper manner of working, that is, most freely"
		Compatibilism (also known as soft determinism), is the belief that God's predetermination and meticulous providence is "compatible" with voluntary choice.
		It should be noted that this position is no less deterministic than hard determinism - be clear that neither soft nor hard determinism believes man has a free will.
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/topic/freewill.html (2823 words)

	Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online : Free will
		(Critique, by an Academic, of Stoic and Epicurean views on determinism; sole source for the outstanding defence of incompatibilism by Carneades, the second-century bc Academic philosopher.)
		Honderich, T. The Consequences of Determinism, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
		(Combines compatibilism and hard determinism and explores the role of illusion, which is claimed to be both morally and existentially necessary for us.)
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/V014P13.13 (1180 words)

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