Causality

Throughout the semester in the microbiology lab we have been taught how to conduct multiple experiments to identify microorganisms. Many of these experiments can be used on all different types of microorganisms but cumulatively they can help isolate a singular microorganism’s identity. At the beginning of the semester we were divided into several groups and were assigned an unknown of which we were tasked with identifying. Being assigned number 14 as our unknown, my group consisting of…

Determinism is a philosophical idea that attempts to place all events that occur as inevitable as they are predetermined by previous events and the laws of nature. However there are many who came to be known as indeterminists who reject the notion that free will is absent from the process that causes events to occur. Indeterminists believe that there are possible events that have different probabilities of occurring based on human beings free will. Then Chisholm’s view of the agent-casual theory…

Determinism is the philosophical concept that all past, present, and future events are fixed. According to Meghan Griffith, there are several varieties of determinism (17). In this essay, I will be concerned with causal determinism, which, according to Griffith, is the belief that “if there are deterministic laws of nature, then given circumstances, certain kinds of events will always follow certain other kinds of events” (18). In other words, causal determinism focuses on the relationship…

In “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler published in Seventeen, Tyler paints a picture of the life of a boy named Donny. The author begins this short story by describing Donny as an innocent child. The story then goes on to describe Donny’s spiraling behavior, and how he is now being forced to meet with a tutor who asked to be called Cal. After some time, Donny is expelled from his school, and Daisy decides to stop the tutoring sessions and enrolls Donny into a public school. A couple months after…

Question 1 The range is the simplest measure of variation; to obtain it, we subtract (the lowest value +1) from (the highest value). The pros of the range are that it gives us the full scope of extremes of a sample size. The cons of the range are that when the outliers are too dramatic and far away from the other numbers, they give us an inaccurate depiction of sample size. For example, due to the income inequality, the minimum wage should be at close to $25.00 per hour (Dalton, week 6). The…

ly free to answer this question, probably not, otherwise in most cases people would choose not too do work over doing it, however is that because I’m not free to answer this question, or I do have the freedom but choose to answer it because I want to complete my degree. Free will is simply the ability to choose a certain action, therefore every action we take in life is taken there and then, and has not been pre-planned for us. Free will is the idea that we ourselves are effectively free moral…

3. What prompted the author to present the issue on what is normal and abnormal? Who is Peter Levin Shaffer? • Early Life: Peter Shaffer was born to Orthodox Jewish parents, Jack and Reka Shaffer, in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1926, has a twin brother, Anthony. Another brother, Brian, was born in 1929. He was studying history and a scholarship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Before the careen in playwriting, Shaffer was a coal miner during World War II, held various odd jobs,…

We believe that sports should be cut from the school budget. They are rough on the students'' by the pressure they can bring,the possibility of a concussion, which causes kids -to miss school, and it can rob a kid of his childhood. The students are able to get a scholarship by participating in sports. Only two percent of kid’s become professional athletes (Business Insider), that means out of all the sports participants a Monticello Trails Middle School, only eight-percent are likely to earn…

Regardless of the action, in society everyone is morally responsible for their actions. However, in to hold a person morally responsible for action or decision he must make that decision freely. Philosophers have argued about this concept of the existence of free will and having moral responsibility. Furthermore, there are those philosophers that do not question free will, but rather the idea of being help morally responsible for an action. In this essay we will discuss free will, the Principle…

We believe that sports should be cut from the school budget. They are bad for the students by the pressure they can bring,the possibility of a concussion, which causes kids -to miss school, and it can rob a kid of his childhood memories. The students are able to get a scholarship by playing sports. Only two percent of kid’s become professional athletes (Business Insider). That means out of all the football players at MTMS only eight percent may be offered a scholarship. It is even less than…