This is the name given to a philosophical doctrine in which it is proposed that each event or phenomenon that takes place must be, necessarily, determined by the circumstances and the situation in which they occurred. Therefore, no act is really free, but has actually been pre-established. Its concepts range from thoughts to human actions, these being, as already mentioned, causally fixed by the traditional and unbreakable cause-consequence chain.
This line of thought, according to the authors consulted, may have slight changes in the details that are presented; for this reason, it is usually divided into strong and weak determinism.
This doctrine has been widely extended in various areas of scientific importance, such as the social sciences (geography, biology, genetics, technology, economics) and the natural sciences, as well as meddling in religion and even environmentalism. However, in these areas it is common for only one type of determinism to predominate, due to what they defend in their theories.
For its part, strong determinism, mainly represented by Pierre-Simon Laplace, argues that there is no such thing as chance or random facts; the future is potentially predictable from the present. Strong determinism focuses on this very point; however, it alleges that there is simply a strong correlation between the present and the future, and the latter can be modified by the interaction of chance.
It has been argued that, for the evolution of science and the exploration of new perspectives, it was necessary to include determinism within the philosophy of researchers. This resulted in a series of theories, fostered from what was previously discovered, taking into account the facts, their characteristics and how they will develop in the future.
