DARWINISM AND DETERMINISM |
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| Authors: | Michael Ruse |
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| Affiliation: | Michael Ruse is professor of history and philosophy at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Does Darwinism generally, and human sociobiology in particular, lead to an unwarranted (and possibly socially offensive) determinism? I argue that one must separate out different senses of determinism, and that once one has done this, a Darwinian approach to human nature can be seen to shed important light on our intuitions about free will, constraint, and control. |
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| Keywords: | Darwinism determinism free will human sociobiology |
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