The chaos of hazard or the cosmos of determinism? Cover Image

Haosul hazardului sau cosmosul determinismului?
The chaos of hazard or the cosmos of determinism?

Author(s): Francisc Gafton
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Science, Sociobiology
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: teleology; determinism; Neo-Darwinism; random;

Summary/Abstract: All that exists emerges from the previous and is subject to some determining factors, that is, it has antecedents and causes, which have antecedents and causes, regardless of the difficulty of exhaustively analysing the elements of the causal chain (that is to quantify their forces, their hierarchy and weights, to determine their degrees of conjunction, interdetermination and collaboration, to monitor, mathematize and algorithmize their components), nothing being indeterminate and random. Such difficulty or impossibility cannot generate or constitute a reason to conclude that such complex processes would be indeterminate and random, as they are rigorously determined by a multitude of inextricably intertwined factors.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 1-16
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian