Causality

Initially my plan was to give an account of social contrasts in attributions of causality. (i.e., Mass shootings) During my examination procedure, I continued hitting a similar barricade. Every time I took a stab at rethinking my question, I wound up being lead to a similar result. That outcome was weapon related killings are regularly connected to dysfunctional behavior. Imagine a scenario where emotional sickness isn 't the principle reason firearm related shootings happen. I set out to discover

The Matrix films take place in a thought provoking universe and present some classical yet relevant philosophical ideas, especially those pertaining to determinism. Determinism is the theory that every event that occurs is caused to occur such that what obtains in the future could not have been different given what has obtained in the past. This issue persists throughout the entire trilogy and shapes the development of the characters and the story. The films borrow ideas from various forms of media

Determinism and free will are regarded as two opposite sides, because most people think that they are incompatible with each other. But actually they are not. Determinism draws a picture of causality in the frame of laws of nature. That is to say, every event has a cause. From deterministic point of view, free will is uncaused, so it rejects free will completely. On the other hand, opponents of free will reject determinism. However, there is a third option, a softer way to solve free will problem

Question One Strength of Association: Strong associations are more likely to be causal compared to weak associations. Criticism: The existence of weak association does not rule out causality and may still be of significant effect on the disease under study. This is applied in a case where the exposure is in a common population. For instance passive smoking and lung cancer (Risk Ratio: 1.3) (Morein & Stuart, n.d). Consistency: Repeated observation of an association in a different population under

Aquinas’s law of motion. The second argument described by Aquinas is similar to the first argument but deals with causality. Aquinas described this argument in terms of events where one event is caused by another. A perfect example of this is the birth of a human being is caused by a relationship between two individuals; one event causes another. My belief is that the second argument of causality formulates a weakness of not being able to explain the proposition from the conclusion. The second way states

When two human beings carry out an identical action together, each of them often comes to think that the other person could be the source of the movement, the event. In this way, unpredictability and variability are introduced in their own intentions and actions. David Wegner and Thalia Wheatley in 1999 carry out an experiment in which they are studying exactly how human beings are convinced that they have had a certain effect, despite the fact that they have not done anything. The experiment shows

Analysis of Hume’s Critique of Causation Sometimes it is hard to be sure what conclusion to draw from a Humean analysis, and he is easy to misrepresent. This is partly because one argument he is engaged in may raise a number of related issues that he has dealt with elsewhere, and some of his points seem contradictory. My wish is to consider some of the possible readings of David Hume’s critique of causation, as it appears in Section VII of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, “On Necessary

In an article on sin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge defines sin as “an evil which has its ground or origin in the agent, and not in the compulsion of circumstances.” (65). Coleridge’s definition of sin excludes any outside cause of sin, besides the agent himself. Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem of sin, but it is also a poem that questions etiology. John Livingston Lowes writes “The relentless line of cause and consequence runs likewise, unswerving as the voyage, through the

Huang’s hypothesis seems useful for application towards autocratic regimes where ineffective propaganda is especially prevalent, such as in Syria and Korea. By examining the relationship between individual perceptions of regime strength and exposure to propaganda in the form of ideological and political curricula, Huang makes a compelling argument meant to supplement rather than supplant indoctrination theory. Regardless, there are several problems with Huang’s experimental design which make it difficult

Michael Colon Dr. Buchholz, D. Introduction to Philosophy I 11/01/2014 Compatibilism: Discussion and concerns Compatibilism is defined as “the view that determinism is not incompatible with free will.” In this holding, if determinism were valid, a person still has free will. One of the initial forms of compatibilism is the holding that to be imbued with free will “is simply for one’s choice to cause one’s actions. Free will is basically doing what one wants; in the example of Hume, free will is basically