----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
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> The free will/determinism debate has gone on for thousands of years, and
> will continue, because there is no satisfactory way of empirically
> resolving the question. (No matter how much I insist that what I
> write here is a product of my free, creative subjectivity, a radical
> behaviorist can quite logically claim that my behavior is completely
> determined by reinforcement contingencies in my past. --In fact,
> even my insistence that I have free will can be explained by
> observational learning, punishment, reward!) So the question
> of free will isn't an interesting theoretical question for me.
> I think it's much more useful to ask: Why the incessant focus on
> individuals and subjectivity in our society? How does this
> individualization reinforce economic and political structures?
>
> Miles
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I think it's because the answer to your question might have something to do with the rest of your reply........
Ian