The leading theory in the social sciences is cultural determinism. Yet, it lacks plausibility as a scientific theory. It is often untestable. When tested, it frequently fails. Such failures are widely ...

IN considering the life of man in history or in contemporary social relations there are two hypotheses open to us. We may postulate that, from the largest sweep of the historic process down to the ...

Physicists often speak as though determinism and determinacy were the same issue, yet the two questions are conceptually distinct. Determinism concerns the dynamics of a physical system: given its ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

A long-standing debate regarding Roman 9 continues among informed laity, church denominations, theologians, and scholars on whether Paul teaches divine determinism in this passage. Does the passage ...

SIR ARTHUR, EDDINGTON'S characteristically fascinating address on “The Decline of Determinism”, which we publish as our Supplement this week, will be welcomed as a clear, unequivocal statement, by a ...