PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The paper is an attempt to summarize contemporary research results on theoretical concepts of conspiracy theories. Author has analyzed theoretical aspects from the viewpoints of political theory and theory of history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy. One of the goals of the paper is to connect the determinism that is at the heart of Western Christian European civilization with the emergence of conspiracy theo…

Reference · Wikidata

2011 master's thesis by Robin Aldridge-Sutton at Victoria University of Wellington

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Free will is generally understood as the capacity or ability of people to (a) choose between different possible courses of action, (b) exercise control over their actions in a way that is necessary for moral responsibility, or (c) be the ultimate source or originator of their actions. There are different theories as to its nature, and these aspects are often emphasized differently depending on philosophical traditio…

Book · DOAB

Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights,” privileges works-based agency (praxis) in literary-artistic scholarship. The principal focus of the Franciscan-inspired embrace of a “no rights” status for works of literary-artistic scholarship is toward freeing both author and works from forms of technocratic determinism and neo-utilitarianism associated with regimes of intellectual property rights law and platform cultures. E…

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