When Is Biology Destiny? Biological Determinism and Social Responsibility

Social and Ethical Responsibility against Social Determinism

Background: Because of the highlighted role of ethical responsibility in social and individual life, it is looked as an important issue in ethics area. Social responsibility that is defined as a sub-factor of ethical responsibility will have such an important place. What is discussed in responsibility discussions commonly is the “human will”. Responsibility is more based on the free will. In th...

Moral Responsibility and Determinism

conditions, would they choose to hold on to the concrete judgment that Bill is morally responsible or the abstract judgment that no one can be responsible in a deterministic universe? The results showed no clear majority on either side. Approximately half of the subjects chose to hold onto the judgment that the particular agent was morally responsible, while the other half chose to hold onto th...

Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Life Chances

Two key questions are addressed regarding the intersection of socioeconomic status, biology, and low birth weight over the life course. First, do the income and other socioeconomic conditions of a mother during her pregnancy affect her chances of having a low-birth-weight infant net of her own birth weight, that of the father, and other family-related, unobserved factors? Second, does an indivi...

When Piecewise Determinism Is Almost True

Most existing log-based recovery techniques assume perfect piecewise determinism. In practice, however, the behavior of certain events is determined by the execution environment, and is not replayble. In this paper , we introduce a probabilistic piecewise determinis-tic model, and develop a probability tracking mechanism to achieve high-conndence output commits. The paper also addresses the iss...

Biological determinism.