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Ben, Patrick Effiong
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2024-02-20T13:05:05Z |
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2023-10 |
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I aim to establish in this article why Aribiah Attoe, like other determinists before him, got it wrong in arguing for the possibility of predeterminism in a materially evolving universe. I will do this by proving two things: I will first establish the inconsistency of the idea of predeterminism in an evolving universe. Then, I argue that the adirectionality presupposed by an evolutionary universe gives room for free will and negates the argument for a predeterministic universe. I aim to achieve the above by exposing why the view which upholds the universe and all existents within it as lacking free will – or the possibility of adirectionality – stems from a category error on the part of the determinists. Lastly, I defend the position that for predeterminism to stand a chance against the free will of animate things-in-the-world, it must deny the possibility of an evolving/expanding universe that is adirectional and suggestive of boundlessness, and the possibility that some events are not fundamentally necessary reactions to previous states of affairs. |
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Philosophy |
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2025-03-11 |
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hj2024 |
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None |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsph20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Patrick Effiong Ben (2023) Predeterminism as a category error:
Why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong, South African Journal of Philosophy, 42:1, 13-23, DOI:
10.1080/02580136.2023.2211824. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0258-0136 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2073-4867 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/02580136.2023.2211824 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94763 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltd |
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dc.rights |
© 2023 South African Journal of Philosophy. This is an electronic version of an article published in South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 13-23, 2023.doi : https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2023.2211824. South African Journal of Philosophy is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsph20. |
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dc.subject |
Predeterminism |
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Aribiah Attoe |
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Adirectionality |
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Evolution |
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Free will |
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Predeterministic historicity (PDH) |
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dc.title |
Predeterminism as a category error : why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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