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Social reality and the hole in determinism

✍ Scribed by Roy F. Baumeister

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 141 KB
Volume: 18
Category: Article
ISSN: 1057-7408
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcps.2007.10.007

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

To believe in free will is to believe that people really make choices, in which more than one outcome is possible. Instead of the outmoded dualism of mind and body, we need to understand the duality of physical and social reality. Social reality, composed of meaning, reveals the inadequacy of physical determinism. Social realities (e.g., money, justice, democracy, law, mathematics, culture) do not have the properties of physical matter (e.g., chemical composition, mass, velocity, molecular structure), but they can affect behavior and thereby enter into the stream of physical causation.

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