Predeterminism as a category error : why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong

dc.contributor.authorBen, Patrick Effiong
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-20T13:05:05Z
dc.date.issued2023-10
dc.description.abstractI 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.en_US
dc.description.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.description.embargo2025-03-11
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgNoneen_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsph20en_US
dc.identifier.citationPatrick 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-0136 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2073-4867 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/02580136.2023.2211824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/94763
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltden_US
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.en_US
dc.subjectPredeterminismen_US
dc.subjectAribiah Attoeen_US
dc.subjectAdirectionalityen_US
dc.subjectEvolutionen_US
dc.subjectFree willen_US
dc.subjectPredeterministic historicity (PDH)en_US
dc.titlePredeterminism as a category error : why Aribiah Attoe got it wrongen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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