Irish Free State

or quantum indeterminacy that this is the causes of our thoughts and actions that gives us this model of what we call free will. This is not determined by one 's character and values, one 's feelings and desires, one 's motives and reasons, as this constitutes the Two-Stage Models for Free Will. For this, philosophy, in general, continues to motivate me to become a radical free thinker and focus on my ideas as this is crucial to my development as my…

event-causal model of human agency, attempting to bring intentional states and actions into a single causal chain: an agent’s intentional states (or events), such as beliefs, desires and intentions, cause some bodily movement called ‘basic action’ to happen. There are different descriptions of this basic action, and under some of them, this action is intentional. (Davidson 2001/1963, 2001/1971) Even though it is often believed that intentional states cannot be causes, it will not be a problem…

Throughout any day of ones life they make decisions that can impact the future for them and others, but is there determinism or free will behind the choices? In life many will make decisions that they feel are their own free will and some will make decisions and say it was a result of the environment they are in and that due to something that previously happened to them was a result in their purposeful choice or intention. Determinism is something that everyone lives with on a daily basis and…

Sprint Corporation (“Sprint”) is a publicly traded company with millions of shareholders, over 30,000 employees, and over 57 million customers. In culmination hundreds of millions of people invest their trust and confidence in Sprint. As such, the success of this organization must be ensured in order to protect the interests of all. In order to effect such an assurance a comprehensive evaluation of every element of the organization should be conducted. It is a monumental task that no one person…

foot in front of another and reaching out, moving a finger along a keyboard. How could a body exist without a mind to control it and how could a mind exist without a body to control and fill with emotions? Descartes acknowledges that argument and states that less real cannot cause something that is more real, and by something that is less real he’s talking about finite substances and a finite substance can’t make an infinite substance. Descartes, initial question, that is based on the question…

In his work ( Existentialism is Humanism), Sartre, one of the most influential figures in western philosophy emphasis free will and work from every aspect to prove the absolute freedom of decision of a human beings. Perhaps Sartre was influenced by the historical events of his time, or, perhaps he was defending existentialism as a philosophical perspective. But what matters is that in the end, Sartre puts freedom of choice first and last. To demonstrate or to prove per se this freedom of choice…

is what is called free will. The opposing side of free will is hard determinism. Hard determinism is a theory that everything that occurs in the universe is entirely determined to be that way, due to causation. Hard determinists believe choice does not exist, free will does not exist, and randomness does not exist. When you woke up this morning and picked out your clothes for the day was that free will or determinism? When you chose what you would eat for breakfast was that free will or…

The Book of Job probes the question of the problem of evil in the world. This book is one of the more philosophical books in the old testament. It has spiritual value, but it also has a universal philosophical value that touches on the problem of evil. The main character is Job who is an upstanding gentile man of his town. He has a family, a farm, and status in his town. One-day God and Satan are talking and Satan says Job only loves God because he is blessed with a good life. So as a challenge…

Universal determinism is the thesis that every event is fully determined by an event or several events that proceeded it. It was Pierre Laplace who pointed out that the present state of the universe is the effect of its preceded state (Litch 121). It is the past that creates the present and it is the present that determines the future. Everything is what is now because it was determined by something in the past. According to Mary Litch, “Events in the past are determined and fixed: we may regret…

work by Aristotle, De Anima, Aristotle alludes to the theory of spontaneous generation for the origin of organisms. In De Anima, Aristotle discusses the seemingly spontaneous generation of testacea, or mollusks. In this section of De Anima, Aristotle states that the generation of the testacea is not sexual reproduction, but spontaneous generation (Lennox 224). To many, this account sounds very familiar to Empedocles, implying that chance randomly assorts different parts of organisms together…