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Suzanne Visser
Feb 27, 20232 min read
Libertarianism - David Hodgson
McCay and Sevel’s collection Free Will and the Law consists of a series of essays by various writers about the libertarian theory of free...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Dennett versus Caruso
In Just deserts: debating free will, Dennett debates with the determinist Caruso, who proposes a public-health model to treat offenders....
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Dennett versus Harris
Unsurprisingly, Dennett has attempted to shred Harris’s book Free Will to pieces. He agrees that the incoherence of the free-will...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 18, 20233 min read
Compatibilism
Dennett, The Nefarious Neurosurgeon Daniel Dennett subscribes to the belief that free will and determinism can coexist. In this...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Benjamin Libet
Harris relies heavily on experiments by Benjamin Libet. “The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Goal: get the book 'Communication is Everything' in juvenile detention centres and prisons in the NT
Happy and Successful through Intelligent Communication by Paul Neuteboom. Translated by Suzanne Visser, edited by Phil Walcott and...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 6, 20233 min read
Sam Harris, Free Will
In Free Will, Sam Harris states that neuroscientific findings give us clear reason to believe that we do not have free will. This counts...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 4, 20232 min read
What is the self?
In 2007, at the beginning of the new atheist movement, the philosophers who later became known as “the four horsemen” or “the heralds of...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Free will and the law - determinism, compatibilism and libertarianism
For an overview of the debate around free will, The Routledge Companion to Free Will and the Oxford Handbook of Free Will are good...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 31, 20233 min read
A problem rooted in history
The phenomenon of (youth) crime in Alice Springs is deeply embedded, of course, in Australia’s colonial past and the declaration of Terra...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 28, 20234 min read
The literature
To understand a problem, one must read about it. And read I did. The following literature review was conducted from August 2020 to August...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 27, 20239 min read
The economic cost of crime in Alice Springs
Below I investigate the approximate economic cost of crime in Alice Springs at the time of this writing: 2022. Firstly, I look at pre-tax...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 25, 20231 min read
Why do parents and Elders feel powerless to discipline their children?
Aboriginal families and Elders feel powerless to discipline children for fear of intervention by child protection services or reprisals...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 24, 20232 min read
Linguistic disadvantage & mental impairment
.Language is a significant disadvantage for Aboriginal people caught up in the justice system. The Northern Territory has, thanks to...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 21, 20232 min read
The Telethon Kids Institute survey
The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey was the largest and most comprehensive survey ever undertaken into the health,...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Questions, scope, and perspective
My research for this blog attempted to answer the following questions: . 1. What obstacles do we have to overcome to solve the problem of...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 17, 20232 min read
Aims
This blog has several aims. Firstly, I hope to create a framework for thinking clearly about crime in Alice Springs because such a...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 16, 20232 min read
What if
Through the exposure of Dylan Voller’s treatment in detention by Four Corners and the subsequent Royal Commission into the Protection and...
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 15, 20231 min read
Searching for solutions
The literature review for this blog identified 31 obstacles we must overcome to solve the problem of (youth) crime in Alice Springs....
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Suzanne Visser
Jan 14, 20232 min read
The causes
When we listen carefully to the offenders, their youth workers, social workers, and psychologists, we learn that certain factors feature...
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