determinists
Determinists are proponents of determinism, the view that every event is necessitated by antecedent events in accordance with universal laws. In this sense, human actions are caused by prior mental states, environmental conditions, and physical processes, leaving little room for alternate possibilities.
Key variants include causal or physical determinism, which claims the world operates as a closed system of
Hard determinism asserts that free will does not exist and moral responsibility is illusory. Compatibilism, or
Historical roots extend to ancient Stoics and later to Spinoza and Leibniz. In physics, classical Newtonian