Condoning Criminality: Sam Harris's Warped Determinism

Timothy McGettigan

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Condoning Criminality: Sam Harris's Warped Determinism

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Authors: Timothy McGettigan;

doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2834638

Condoning Criminality: Sam Harris's Warped Determinism

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Beginning with Laplace, hard determinists have claimed that they can literally explain every event that has ever transpired in the long history of the cosmos -- from the formation of galaxies to the itch on my nose -- as a predetermined outcome of an unbroken chain of causality. However, Popper (1959) points out that, in explaining everything, unfalsifiable theories succeed in explaining nothing.

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