{"id":7439,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/causal_determinism_-or_causalism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:53","slug":"causal_determinism_-or_causalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/causal_determinism_-or_causalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Causal determinism (or causalism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The doctrinal assertion of the causality principle. &nbsp;In general terms, it advocates the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions, together with the laws of nature. &nbsp;Pursued thoroughly enough, it has been held, then it will explain all phenomena and thus give rise to a Theory of Everything.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cause_-or_causal_factor-\">Cause (or causal factor)<\/a>, <a href=\"causality_-in_philosophy-\">Causality (in philosophy)<\/a>, <a href=\"laws_of_nature\">Laws of nature<\/a>, Theory of Everything (ToE)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctrinal assertion of the causality principle. &nbsp;In general terms, it advocates the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions, together with the laws of nature. &nbsp;Pursued thoroughly enough, it has been held, then it will explain all phenomena and thus give rise to a Theory of Everything. See Cause (or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/causal_determinism_-or_causalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Causal determinism (or causalism)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}