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DARWINISM AND DETERMINISM
Author(s) -
Ruse Michael
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1987.tb00781.x
Subject(s) - darwinism , determinism , offensive , sociobiology , epistemology , free will , social darwinism , constraint (computer aided design) , philosophy , political science , mathematics , law , geometry , operations research , politics
Abstract. Does Darwinism generally, and human sociobiology in particular, lead to an unwarranted (and possibly socially offensive) determinism? I argue that one must separate out different senses of determinism, and that once one has done this, a Darwinian approach to human nature can be seen to shed important light on our intuitions about free will, constraint, and control.