Stuart Hall

I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an argument with economic determinism. I lived my life as an argument with Marxism, and with neoliberalism. Their point is that, in the last instance, economy will determine it. But when is the last instance?

British Activist

Kevin DeYoung

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

American Theologian

Freeman Dyson

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.

American Physicist

John Cornwell

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

British Journalist

Joan Didion

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.

American Author

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

German Scientist

Ken MacLeod

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

Scottish Writer

George W. Romney

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

American Politician

Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Indian Leader

Susan Griffin

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

American Writer

Determinism suggests that events are inevitable and not a result of free will or chance.

Inevitability

Determinism is often discussed regarding choices and morality, raising questions about responsibility.

Philosophical Context

Soft determinism accepts free will to some extent, whereas hard determinism rejects it completely.

Soft vs. Hard

In physics, determinism implies that past or current events can accurately predict the future.

Predictability

Quantum physics challenges determinism by introducing randomness at a subatomic level.

Quantum Challenge

In psychology, determinism links behavior to underlying causes like genetics and past experiences.

Behavior Causes

Therapists might explore deterministic factors when treating clients, looking at their backgrounds.

Determinism in Therapy

 that our decisions today will determine what kind of balls we pull out of that urn. I mean, if we just keep inventing, like, eventually we will pull out all the balls. I mean, I think there's a kind of weak form of technological determinism that is quite plausible,