Hard determinism (or metaphysical determinism) is a view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and...

Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Deterministic theories...

possible) and hard determinism (the claim that determinism is true and thus free will is not possible). Another incompatibilist position is hard incompatibilism...

Incompatibilism is the view that the thesis of determinism is logically incompatible with the classical thesis of free will. The term was coined in the...

Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency...

actions. Hard theological determinism is similar in implication to hard determinism, although it does not invalidate compatibilist free will. Hard theological...

innocence of his clients, Leopold and Loeb, by invoking such a notion of hard determinism. During his summation, he declared: What has this boy to do with it...

distinct. No agreed-upon definition for distinguishing them exists. Hard determinism Necessitarianism Laplace's demon De Broglie–Bohm theory Many-worlds...

Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically...

already determined. A third such view is causal determinism. Causal determinism (often simply called "determinism") is now usually treated as distinct from...