Determinism

[Patrick F. Durgin]

Thanks for this.  &, well, I'm *also* interested in *historical*
materialism, which sounds fuzzy re: my interests.  To clarify, the point is
to wade around in the most disparate theories of determinism & indeterminism
in philosophy (political, metaphysical, physical, aesthetics) as a way of
figuring extreme left artists like Joseph Beuys and Jackson Mac Low.  So, I
think my approach is novel, which seems, at this point, rather fuzzy, even
(or especially) to me.

  Anything else up yr sleeve?
Patrick

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 8:56 AM
Subject: Determinism


> In a message dated 10/8/00 9:47:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> pdurgin at acsu.buffalo.edu writes:
>
> << 1)  The core philosophical texts of 'Determinism' are ... ? >>
>
> Jesus, it's been a long time since I thought of this stuff. In early
modern
> philosophy there is de la Mettrie's Man a Machine; Hume discusses the
> compatibilist line. Kant's practical philosophy is a prolonged attempt to
> wriggle out from under the implications of hard determinism. In modern
times,
> John Hospers wrote a detense of hard determinism, as has, more recently,
Ted
> Honderich (called, I think, determinism).
>
> There's a classic collection, now rather old, Free Will and Determinism,
ed.
> Bernard Berofsky (Harper 1966): Sidney Hook has an anthology from the same
> vintage. More recently there is a little collection in the Oxford Readings
in
> Philosophy series called Free Will, I forget the editor. Richard Taylor,
in
> his Metaphysics, Prentice Hall, as an important view.  \\
>
> This is all free will and determinism stuff. For What Is Determinism, and
if
> you are into heavy going, John Earman, a brilliant philosopher of physics,
> has a book called Determinsim, discusses whether classical mechnaics is
> deterministic. Or are you interested in __historical_ determinism? --jks