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Recent psychological approaches to the free will versus determinism controversy

A. A. Sappington

Psychological Bulletin 108:19-29 (1990)

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Conceptions of Determinism in Radical Behaviorism: A Taxonomy.Brent D. Slife, Stephen C. Yanchar & Brant Williams - 1999 - Behavior and Philosophy 27 (2):75 - 96.details Determinism has long been a core assumption in many forms of behaviorism, including radical behaviorism. However, this assumption has been a stumbling block for many—both within and outside the field of radical behaviorism—resulting in misunderstanding and misrepresentation. The following paper provides a descriptive taxonomy of four kinds of determinism assumed or asserted in the radical behavioral literature. This taxonomy is intended to organize these deterministic positions, provide working definitions, and explore their implications. Through this work, it is hoped that behaviorists (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Foucault as complexity theorist: Overcoming the problems of classical philosophical analysis.Mark Olssen - 2008 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 40 (1):96–117.details This article explores the affinities and parallels between Foucault's Nietzschean view of history and models of complexity developed in the physical sciences in the twentieth century. It claims that Foucault's rejection of structuralism and Marxism can be explained as a consequence of his own approach which posits a radical ontology whereby the conception of the totality or whole is reconfigured as an always open, relatively borderless system of infinite interconnections, possibilities and developments. His rejection of Hegelianism, as well as of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Be Careful what you Wish for: Acceptance of Laplacean Determinism Commits One to Belief in Precognition.Stan Klein - 2024 - Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 11 (1):19–29.details Laplacean Determinism (his so-called demon argument) is the thesis that every event that transpires in a closed universe is a physical event caused (i.e., determined) in full by some earlier event in accord with laws that govern their behavior. On this view, it is possible, in principle, to make perfect predictions of the state of the universe at any time Tn on the basis of complete knowledge of the state of the universe at time T1. Thus, if identity theory, epiphenomenalism (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Foucault as Complexity Theorist: Overcoming the problems of classical philosophical analysis.Mark Olssen - 2008 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 40 (1):96-117.details This article explores the affinities and parallels between Foucault's Nietzschean view of history and models of complexity developed in the physical sciences in the twentieth century. It claims that Foucault's rejection of structuralism and Marxism can be explained as a consequence of his own approach which posits a radical ontology whereby the conception of the totality or whole is reconfigured as an always open, relatively borderless system of infinite interconnections, possibilities and developments. His rejection of Hegelianism, as well as of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Embodied Freedom and the Escape from Uncertainty.Boris Kotchoubey - 2010 - PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 16 (1):99-107.details : Behavioral actions can attain their intended result either when all possible details and intervening factors are controlled in advance by the action plan, or when only the final outcome is taken into account while the rest is left for on-line correction. Both ways have numerous advantages and disadvantages. The former can be applied only in very simple instances and therefore, puts very strong limits on the complexity of behavior. The latter can be used for action plans of practically unlimited (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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