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(philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
The teaching that every event in the universe is caused and controlled by natural law; that there is no free will in humans and that all events are merely the result of natural and physical laws
A belief that all processes are predetermined by definite causes and natural laws and can therefore be predicted Biological determinism and mechanical determinism are two variations of this premise Indeterminism is the reverse of thisa belief that events are governed not by laws but by pure chance
Genus: Theory of causality Differentia: Everything in the universe is predetermined directly by previous events Comment: This is often used as a method of denying free will, but that denial is a dropping of context Link: Article
Belief that, since each momentary state of the world entails all of its future states, it must be possible (in principle) to offer a causal explanation for everything that happens When applied to human behavior, determinism is sometimes supposed to be incompatible with the freedom required for moral responsibility The most extreme variety of determinism in this context is fatalism Recommended Reading: Ted Honderich, Mind and Brain: A Theory of Determinism (Clarendon, 1990) {at Amazon com} and Consequences of Determinism (Clarendon, 1990) {at Amazon com}; and Daniel C Dennett, Elbow Room (MIT, 1984) {at Amazon com} Also see articles on determinism, its historical, logical, and scientific varieties, and destiny in OCP, Norman Swartz, Michael Huemer, BGHT, P S Greenspan, ISM, David L Thompson, ColE, Donna Summerfield, noesis, and MacE
Generally, the doctrine that every fact in the universe is guided entirely by law (in Christian theology, by God's law) All facts in the universe are dependent upon and conditioned by their causes "Soft" determinism removes the ultimate cause from the immediate cause of a fact; "hard" determinism describes every fact as directly caused by law
Denies freedom of the will in causality According to this fateful school of thought, all effects are necessary, and not contingent It is a cosmological application of Deism
The view that every event has a cause and that everything in the universe is governed by causal laws Since determinists believe that all events, including human actions, are predetermined, determinism is thought by "libertarians" and "hard determinists" to be incompatible with free will Hard determinists deny there is free will on the grounds that everything is causally determined Libertarians deny that everything is causally determined on the grounds that there is free will) So-called "soft determinists" follow Hume in holding determinism and free will (rightly understood) are compatible: free acts are not uncaused on compatibilist conceptions of freedom, they're just caused in the right way, by the agents beliefs and desires See Compatiblism
Determinism is the belief that all actions and events result from other actions, events, or situations, so people cannot in fact choose what to do. I don't believe in historical determinism. the belief that what you do and what happens to you are caused by things that you cannot control. In philosophy, the doctrine that all events, including human decisions, are completely determined by previously existing causes. The traditional free will problem arises from the question, Is moral responsibility consistent with the truth of determinism? Among those who believe it is not consistent, some, maintaining the truth of determinism, have concluded that no one is morally responsible for what he does (and therefore that punishment for criminal actions is unjustified); others, maintaining the reality of moral responsibility, have concluded that determinism is false. Those who believe that moral responsibility is consistent with determinism are known as compatibilists (see compatibilism). Pierre-Simon Laplace is responsible for the classical formulation of determinism in the 18th century. For Laplace, the present state of the universe is the effect of its previous state and the cause of the state that follows it. If a mind, at any given moment, could know all the laws and all the forces operating in nature and the respective positions and momenta of all its components, it could thereby know with certainty the future and the past of every entity
the ability to direct or determine the actions of someone or something Thus something done "on one's own determinism" would be caused by the person himself, not by a force exterior to him
Human choices are determined by outside forces or causes which are blind impersonal forces We have no choice This was John L Girardeau's false charge against Jonathan Edwards and his work on the Freedom of the Will