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Professor Godfrey Vesey discusses the idea that people are responsible for their actions, in the light of the work of recent behavioural psychologists, who believe that heredity and environment and... not free will are the factors that condition human actions and behaviour. He finds their claims unproved and decries the notions of 'social control' that have resulted from such ideas as a basic impoverishment of the most important element of our humanity.
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Module code and title: A102, An arts foundation course
Item code: A102; 07
First transmission date: 1987
Published: 1987
Rights Statement: Rights owned or controlled by The Open University
Restrictions on use: This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages.
Duration: 00:25:00
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Producer: Tony Coe
Contributors: Stephen Earle; Godfrey Vesey
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): B.F.Skinner; Descartes; J.S.Mill; Robert Owen; Social Control
Master spool number: MKL604_86YA0042LJO
Production number: 86YA0042LJO
Available to public: no