CONCLUSION

Chapter 7: FREEDOM and DETERMINISM

CONCLUSION

For some very good materials on the issues involved in this discussion see further:

THE DETERMINISM AND FREEDOM PHILOSOPHY WEBSITE edited by Ted Honderich http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwIntroIndex.htm

See also this summary overview: http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/2400-01/fw3-01.html

Free or Determined? You choose? Or has your thinking has already been determined by prior events?

There are a variety of positions and each has strong and weak aspects.

Which position has the best evidence and reasoning in support of it?

Which position is your position?

Do you choose not to have a position? Have you been programmed, trained or conditioned into making that response?

Further Readings can be reached at these sites:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072878274/student_view0/chapter3/theories.html

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072878274/student_view0/chapter3/issues_and_applications.html

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072878274/student_view0/chapter3/philosophers.html

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