Free will and Determinism
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- Free Will and Determinism
- Free Will
- Suggests that as a human being we are free to choose our thoughts and beliefs
- Does not deny that there may be biological or environmental factors but it implies that they can reject these forces
- View of human behavior that is advocated by the humanistic approach
- Determinism
- Hard determinism
- AKA Fatalism suggests all human behavior has a cause and it should be possible to identity and describe these causes
- Uncover the causal laws that govern thoughts and action and always assume that everything we think we do is dictated by internal or external forces we cannot control
- Environmental determinism
- We are determined by conditioning
- Behaviourist approach popularized the idea of environmental determinism
- Skinner said free will is an illusion and argued all behavior is a result of conditioning
- Our experience of 'choice' is the total of reinforcementcontingencies that we have acted upon throughout our lives
- We may think we are acting independently but our behavior has been shaped by our environment
- Soft determinism
- William James - Some room for maneuvre that people have conscious mental control over the way they behave
- Psychic determinism
- Freud thought free will is an illusion but places emphasis on biological drives and instincts rather than conditioning
- Freud's physic determinism sees behavior as determined and directed by unconscious conflicts repressed in childhood
- Biological determinism
- Emphases the role of biological determinism in behavior
- Physiological processes are not under conscious control
- Genetic factors may determine many behaviors and characteristics
- Hormones may determine behavior
- Hard determinism
- Evaluation
- One strength of free will is that we often make choices in everyday life
- One limitation is hard determinism is not consistent with the legal system
- Untitled
- One strength of determinism is that it is consistent with the aims of science
- One strength is a compromise in the middle ground position
- Free Will
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