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	Free Will: Masters of our destiny or puppets on a string?
		Determinism is the philosophical doctrine that every event in the universe is the inevitable consequence of a preceding cause.
		His little demon is in charge of determining the movements and attributes of all subatomic particles within a given container.
		In order to determine a sequence of events on the subatomic level, Maxwell’s little demon cannot use telepathy but must be in physical interaction with all particles in his environment.
	www.rationality.net /freewill.htm (2927 words)

	Learn more about Determinism in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Determinism is the philosophical doctrine that claims that all behavior results from preceding events or natural causes.
		Proponents of determinism sometimes claim that free will is an illusion, and that beings are no more able to control matter with their minds than any other soulless matter (such as a robot) can.
		Much of a belief in determinism was inspired by Newtonian physics in which the universe was seen as a collection of billiard balls interacting according to the laws of physics.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/de/determinism.html (428 words)

	Determinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a popular misconception that determinism necessarily entails that all future events have already been determined (a position known as Fatalism); this is not obviously the case, and the subject is still debated among metaphysicians.
		Determinism in the West is often associated with Newtonian physics, which depicts the physical matter of the universe as operating according to a set of fixed, knowable laws.
		One approach to determinism is to argue that materialism does not present a correct understanding of the universe, not because it is wrong in its general picture of the determinate interactions that occur among material things, but because it ignores the souls of human beings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Determinism (3482 words)

	Encyclopedia: Scientific determinism
		Since many limitations on predictability are now known (for a partial list see: quantum indeterminacy), most people who argue for determinism do not argue in favor of a strong version of scientific determinism.
		For example, a weaker type of determinism is one that only implies a unique, mechanical course for the universe with future events being caused by past events.
		Hawking admits that even the uncertainty principle does not absolutely rule-out a kind of determinism "in principle", and says that quantum mechanics may very well allow the universe to be deterministic.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scientific-determinism (357 words)

	A Kuhnian Analysis of Scientific Racism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scientific racism is traced from its genesis as a scientific paradigm through its ‘normal science’ period up to the time of its demise as a viable scientific position.
		The flawed scientific basis of scientific racism is evident in its basic premise that the diverse morphological characters observed among humans was the result of evolutionary change in continuous genetic materials that remain unchanged except under selection pressures.
		Scientific racism rose from political social considerations and was sustained over 200 years as the dominant scientific paradigm, not by any scientific merit or achievement but by the sheer tenacity with which its scientific and political supporters clung to the notion of a racial hierarchy.
	www.vancouver.wsu.edu /fac/norman/kuhn.html (4122 words)

	Determinism F.A.Q.
		Determinism is simply the principle that events are determined soley by their antecedents.
		Determinism can be used to create scientific models of spacetime, and it has many real applications as far as how one goes about performing experiments, so therefore it is most meaningfully classified as a scientific model.
		Asserting determinism in things is based on the fact that we do see a cause and effect of many things, and extrapolate (knowing our knowledge of physics is hardly perfect) that the "randomness" we see is because we don't see everything or truly understand what we see.
	home1.gte.net /vze486gy/radio/determinismFAQ.html (1356 words)

	Epistemological Considerations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The application of the criterion of validation of a scientific explanations has two basic consequences: one, the experience of phenomenon to be explained and the generative mechanism, belong to two non intersecting phenomenic domains; and two, scientific explanations does not constitute a phenomenic reductions and are constitutively non reductionistic.
		Scientific explanations are founded on structural determinism, as they consist of the proposition of generative mechanisms that if left to operate give rise to the experiences to be explained (Maturana, 1990).
		According to Maturana, structural determinism, as an abstraction of the coherence of the experiences of the observer, is prior to the notion of autopoiesis, because it is necessary to accept it to understand living systems as autopoietic systems.
	www.hum.aau.dk /~rasand/Artikler/contrib3.htm (2310 words)

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		Scientific problems are not like puzzles because there are no restrictions either on what counts as a solution or on what procedures can be followed in solving a problem.
		Biological determinism emphasizes the e is what scien- importance of physiological conditions or genetic ific methods as predispositions in the explanation of behavior.
		Besides accepting some type of determinism, scientific psychologists also seek general laws, develop theories, and use empirical observation as their ulti- important mate authority in judging the validity of those theo- this group ries.
	www.udel.edu /psych/johnmcl/his19.txt (6620 words)

	Explicit Epistemology
		Popper suggests to derive scientific determinism from a distinction between foreknowledge in general and predictability by a rational scientific procedure.
		As scientific determinism was defined by him relative to a rational prediction method, it is plausible to assume next that the task of the prediction becomes a problem of mere calculation by some machine which realizes the predicton method, a "predictor", as Popper called it.
		For Popper it also follows that scientific determinism cannot be true, because now a predictor, in lack of knowledge of its future actions, cannot calculate the effects of these actions on its environment, hence, given the initial conditions of the environment, its future states cannot be calculated, only observed a posteriori.
	hps.elte.hu /~gk/Publications/JapanEE.html (4368 words)

	TREATISE ON FREEDOM & FATE
		The insistence of scientific theorists on there being one cause of each event is understandable, because this has proven a very fruitful assumption indeed to the methodic progress of analysis and experiment in physics and the allied natural sciences.
		His great authority as a scientific figure did not save him from making this huge mistake on a central scientific question that has more momentous consequences for humanity than the mistake he claimed himself to have made in preaching the benefits of developing the process of nuclear fission.
		Scientific method as determined by physicalism is unsuitable as an instrument of discovering purposive order or of meaning that is inherent in the most important areas of human life: the realm of purposive action, of the inner relations of mind and of spiritual vision.
	www.saiguru.net /english/articles/44treatise.htm (10715 words)

	Determinism F.A.Q.
		Determinism is simply the principle that events are determined soley by their antecedents.
		Determinism can be used to create scientific models of spacetime, and it has many real applications as far as how one goes about performing experiments, so therefore it is most meaningfully classified as a scientific model.
		Asserting determinism in things is based on the fact that we do see a cause and effect of many things, and extrapolate (knowing our knowledge of physics is hardly perfect) that the "randomness" we see is because we don't see everything or truly understand what we see.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze486gy/radio/determinismFAQ.html (1356 words)

	Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is frequent practice to move from the scientific form (determinism, or chance) to a worldview (Determinism, or Chance).
		Determinism as a worldview is equivalent to Fatalism; Chance as a worldview is equivalent to Meaninglessness.
		A scientific description as "chance" is fully as compatible with the statement "God acts" as is a scientific description as "determinism".
	www.proministry.org /html/ps_061801.html (963 words)

	Karl Popper's Main Works in English
		The first is scientific because we can eliminate it if it is false; the second is unscientific because even if it were false we could not get rid of it by confronting it with an observation report that contradicted it.
		Popper contrasts historical prophecy and scientific prediction, arguing that the prediction of social events is severely limited by the impact on society of unforeseeable new knowledge.
		Metaphysical determinism is a weak implication of scientific determinism that is untestable.
	www.eeng.dcu.ie /~tkpw/intro_reading/Introductory_Reading.html (4271 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scientific determinists assert that everything that happens in nature has a cause.
		Well, it seems to me that we have 2 options, the scientific determinist view, witch states that every event was caused by the event before it, or the other view, I don't know what to call it, but how about theistic determinist.
		So, for the next day or two, I will discuss how the view of scientific determinism can be apart of a christian faith.
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	A CASE FOR FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM
		Popper always puts the word "scientific" in quotes when using the phrase "'scientific' determinism" to emphasize his belief that the argument for determinism based on science is fallacious.
		Popper links "scientific" determinism with reductionism, ie, the belief that psychology can be reduced to biology, which can be reduced to chemistry, which can be reduced to physics.
		He purports to be defending causality while opposing determinism when he says: "'to be caused' does not mean 'to be necessitated'" (a phrase that I regard as self-contradictory nonsense).
	www.benbest.com /philo/freewill.html (7409 words)

	freedom1
		Scientific determinism: since every event in nature has a cause or causes that account for its occurrence, and since human beings exist in nature, human acts and choices are as determined as anything else in the world.
		Determinism assumes that there is only one way to explain behavior (viz., causes), when in fact there is another way of explaining behavior (viz., reasons) which is just as good.
		Determined through conflict between the animalistic id and the social, conscientious restrictions of the super-ego, the self (ego) is nothing more than an accommodation of unconscious wishes, frustrations, and defenses.
	philosophy.tamu.edu /~sdaniel/Notes/freedom1.html (1273 words)

	The Society Of Natural Science - AXIOMS
		The processes of the scientific method are the most reliable and acceptable methods for discovering and clarifying the truths of man's existence.
		Established religions deal with the same issues regarding true human nature and the ideal life as we do but tend to eschew scientific methodology, relying instead on myths, visions, folklore, “miracles” etc. They are best regarded as primitive psychologies.
		Man's need for the acceptance and love of his fellows is a powerful determinant of his thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
	www.determinism.com /axioms.shtml (218 words)

	Orgonon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Determinists have responded to the first critique by distinguishing between normative and objective claims, arguing that statements of fact can and should be made independently of their consequences.
		Social cognition is a common approach and involves a mostly cognitive and scientific approach to understanding social behaviour.
		The Function of the Orgasm", Reich argued that the "functional" orgasm causes an electrical discharge from the body and a dynamic spasm of the nervous system that are necessary for optimum health.
	dks.thing.net /Orgonon.html (6952 words)

	Sermon: Live It Forward
		Determinism was an intrinsic feature of the scientific worldview of that time.
		Determinism states, basically, that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes and events.
		Scientific determinism asserts that the Universe is rational, and ultimately, completely knowable, and that we can, therefore, make sound and knowledgeable decisions once we have complete information.
	www.uumh.org /html/sermon_forward.html (2283 words)

	Brainstorms: Teleology: bottom>up or top>down?
		Scientific determinism, by contrast, is an assumption, supported by past experience, that the relationship between cause and effect observed in the past will be repeated in the future (or was repeated in the unobserved past).
		Scientific determinism does not technically require the existence of a permanent and universal causal process.
		Scientific teleological causation is the observation that future effects or outputs can be reliably predicted by a set of causes which includes a goal or purpose variable (or technically an expected goal causal variable).
	www.iscid.org /boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000493.html (1813 words)

	QuizOne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		T F According to determinism if we knew all the initial facts in the universe and all the laws then we could predict the future.
		Strictly speaking this is a consequence of determinism.
		Hard determinism is the view that no one is free and therefore no one is responsible.
	www.d.umn.edu /~revans/PPHandouts/quizone.htm (392 words)

	Free Will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The idea of scientific determinism indicates that all human action is rigidly dictated by the Laws of Nature that order and control our existence.
		The ‘Pessimists’ also find free will and determinism to be incompatible, but conclude that free will itself is non-existent, overruled by the overwhelming authority of scientific determinism.
		If one assumes a biochemical basis to thought, determinism again encroaches upon free will, since chemical/electrical reactions within the brain are based upon fundamental laws of chemistry: They are limited in scope and cannot do anything outside of what these laws allow.
	www.msu.edu /course/iah/231a/rauscher/Will.htm (482 words)

	123Student
		Religious determinism in Arcadia is shown to have to do with God/fate, predestination, and the future whereas the scientific view has to do with Newton, and with biological determinism.
		Although both stories do use both aspects of determinism, it is usually the story from 1809 using the scientific determinism whereas in the present day, they use more of the religious view of determinism.
		Basically, this quote is explaining Septimus¹ views on determinism in a scientific view, and is using Newton as an example as well.
	www.123student.com /english/661.shtml (793 words)

	Parableman: Arguments for Determinism
		In the last post, I defined 'determinism' and distinguished it from a view that is sometimes called fatalism.
		To be determinism, God's means of controlling every event would have to be by setting up the laws of nature in a way that they guarantee every outcome God desires.
		Determinism may or may not be true, as far as science shows us, and science has changed enough that current science may not be exactly right anyway.
	parablemania.ektopos.com /archives/2007/01/freedom_and_det.html (5442 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Determinism is the belief that all events, including human choices are determined or caused by another.
		Here we shall focus on the notion of free will, the doctrine that we as conscious human beings are free to make genuinely undetermined choices in circumstances where we are genuinely able to do so, and where we so freely, or (relavently) unconstrainedly, choose to do so.
		Determinism, a key feature of real-time systems, is the ability to determine with high probability how long a task takes to execute.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/determinism--miscellaneous.html?page=3 (345 words)

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		I argue first that non-causal or 'scientific' theories, and theories which appeal to chance both fail to explicate the relation of determinism to time, and second that various extant theories of causation fail to explicate the relation between indeterministic and deterministic causation.
		Seen from the standpoint of this phenomenological and hermeneutic outlook, although the scientific picture may be adequate to explain paticular sorts of natural phenomena, specifically human phenomena can be made intelligible only in terms of the richer conception of self and world provided by the notion of being-in-the-world.
		I want to show that determinism in the philosophical sense, the view that because all events in the physical universe occur with law-governed necessity free will is impossible, presupposes the correctness of the scientific image of the world.
	www.dactyl.org /directors/vna/abstracts_ringberg.htm (5852 words)

	Determinism - Technological Determinism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It explains the concept of environmental determinism and introduces its greatest Griffith Taylor was an exponent of environmental determinism in both.
		The debate between determinism and freewill is primarily about whether we live A contrasting notion to determinism is freewill and is typically known as
		Causal determinism is, roughly speaking, the idea that every event is Causal determinism: The world is governed by (or is under the sway of) determinism
	pagesfindout.com /psfo/determinism.html (378 words)

	Some Varieties of Free Will and Determinism
		Toward this end, it is important to mention that if scientific determinism were true and psychology is a science with the potential of accurate prediction, it's quite possible the whole enterprise of ethics would be moot, since with no free will, we cannot recommend alternative courses of decision or action.
		Determinism (hard or scientific): the philosophical view that all events (including mental events) have a cause.
		Implications: The notion of chance is not necessarily incompatible with determinism since it might be that the lack of exact initial conditions results in unpredictable behavior.
	philosophy.lander.edu /ethics/notes-determinism.html (1414 words)

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