Determinism

Paired with freewill is the concept of determinism. Determinism can be explained in saying, ‘for of every action, the notion of freewill we think we have is limited by the choices we have. This arises the question of whether or not AI is governed by the same rules as humans? How would AI know those rules…

similar ideas concerning free will. Although for completely different reason, they both sought to keep free will and moral responsibility. For the Epicureans, it was the ‘swerve’ that could alter the chain of determinism. Whereas, for the Stoics, Chrysippus attempted to combine determinism and…

“not a viable political” option, but it also would go against their standing on biological determinism (4). The Combahee River Collective argues against biological determinism, saying that being biologically female does not define a person. In the same way, biological maleness does not make men who they are. Excluding them from the movement would be assuming this. The Collective states that biological determinism is a “particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic”…

groups and pointing to the methods by which the Bantu expansion was carried out. The author’s purpose is to show what environmental factors led to certain peoples asserting dominance over others in order to support his theory about geographic determinism and refute racist explanations about the fates of human societies. The author writes in a logical scientific tone for an educated and intellectually honest audience. The factors all come together to allow Diamond to create a convincing…

In my education it was always implied, or outright said, that the reason why Europe came to dominate the world in terms of culture, trade, and power is because it was the superior culture. Outside of the class I read a book titled Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; The book is an argument for Jared Diamond's theory for why Europe came to power, favorable geography. As obvious as it sounds this concept changed much of I the way that I view history, and culture. Europe had many advantages…

Although in the United States the development of "anthropological" thought had been developed by different authors in the nineteenth century under the perspective called “Social Darwinism”, it is in the early twentieth century when Anthropology emerges as a modern discipline with a theoretical and methodological corpus that allowed its professionalization and inclusion within the university programs of the country. The greatest exponent of anthropology in the United States during the first half…

is developed. Socio-cognitive theories such as Albert Bandura’s (1977) state that personality is a product of a set of cognitive processes otherwise known as the ‘Self-System’. Bandura’s theory outlines the role of social experience, reciprocal determinism and observational learning in relation to the development of the self-system in childhood. Children observe and imitate model behaviour and if that behaviour is encouraged then they are likely to repeat similar behaviour again () further…

memory as well as learning through the imitation of models. I feel this is the most accurate theory presented. I believe everything someone does has a stimulus that caused it. Along with this theory is Bandura’s reciprocal determinism. In Bandura’s model of reciprocal determinism, there are three factors that influence personality and behavior; the first being the environment, then the person, and then the behavior. I like Bandura’s model because it shows that for every action there is a certain…

Ever since scientists uncovered more information about genes, DNA, etc., a lot of scientific advancements linking to the topic have risen like, DNA fingerprinting, gene therapy, and manipulating genes. Lily E. Kay’s Who Wrote the Book of Life: A History of the Genetic Code published in the year 2000, talked about the detailed history of one of the most important events in modern science, the genetic code. Genetic code is the sequence of organic bases on the double strands of DNA. The bases are…

the other instructor had to leave to attend to his son’s baseball game. Although, the overall class was going as planned with two instructors prior (determinism), however, the remainder of the session definitely escalated rather quickly than expected. Nearing the end of class involved two other children in the class started to brawl (soft determinism) with one another. This situation was just shocking to me as I did not know what I was witnessing altogether. Usually, I don’t like to intervene…