What Was James's Stand on the Free-Will Determinism Issue

question 28

Multiple Choice

What was James's stand on the free-will determinism issue?

• A) He believed all things to be completely determined.
• B) As a psychologist he accepted determinism, but in his other roles he accepted free will.
• C) He believed in free will and argued that psychologists had a major obligation to account for it in their theories.
• D) He felt it was a foolish issue that ought not to be considered at all.

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