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Theory of Technological Determinism

In eleven pages this paper examines technological determinism in this consideration of 3 articles which contain supporting argumen...

Observational Learning and Free Will

discipline of marketing and advertising, and indeed the entire basis of consumer society, is predicated upon an assumption of free...

"Open Boat," Free Will, Determinism

This essay pertains to the use of free will and determinism in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." Five pages in length, two sources ...

Themes in Dostoyevsky's Novel, Notes From The Underground

demonstrate how utilitarianism appears to have the peoples best interest in mind; however, that extension is limited to the number...

Debate Regarding Determinism versus Free Will

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical debate regarding determinism versus free will with the use of the texts Donald...

Calvinist Perspective on Determinism and Free Will

In some way, Calvinism gave them comfort. They were living a certain way, but it was Gods influence so it was okay. In many ways, ...

Richard Taylor, Fatalism, and Determinism

states that all events are reliant on previous events (Honderich 194). In other words, any event is an effect of a prior series of...

Free Will, Determinism, and David Hume

In five pages Hume's views on free will and determinism are examined within the context of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

Rostand, Hesse, Camus on Free Will v. Determinism

In 5 pages determinism is defined and its philosophical interpretations are examined within the contexts of Rostand's Cyrano de Be...

Psychological Indeterminism and Determinism

science, man used to think himself a free agent possessing free will. Science gives us, instead, causal determinism wherein every...

Determinism, Free Will, and the Fate of Humanity

by the reasons and values which occupy the highest, conscious level of our organismic structure" (Bissell, no date, p. indexmm1.ht...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Society and Free Will

In three pages this paper exmaines individual responsibility and social determinism as discussed in articles written by Walter Sta...

Determinism and Free Will

In a paper consisting of five pages the extent of free will in light of behavior determinism is assessed. Two sources are cited i...

Economic Determinism and its Relevance

Historical materialism, or dialectical material, as described by Marx and Engels, involves the notion that there is a progression ...

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Criminological Theories

commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Communications Theory and Media Change

but which are also "cumulative and significant" (Chandler, 1995). According to cultivation theory analysts, television viewing p...

Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...

Bystander Behaviors and Helping

a priority - this does not automatically mean, though, that ones actions will be unhelpful, simply that they are not motivated by ...

Plays and Determinism

Carol is seeking help from her professor, but also knows how to manipulate the situation for her advantage. John provides Carol w...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Attitudes and Free Will in the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Comparative Analysis of the Disciplines of Philosophy, Literature, Religion, and Science

most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of John Rawls and John Stuart Mill

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

Comparative Analysis of the Pragmatic Philosophy of William James and the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson

they do not understand. Rather, Kant persisted to probe related concepts, an endeavor that would prove extraordinary in the philos...

Comparative Analysis of Aristotle and Plato's Philosophies

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

Major Philosophies and Discourse Analysis

In nine pages discourse analysis in terms of speech act theory 'performative utterance' is examined with the major philosophies of...