Tenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

What does it mean for something to be possible? Is it that it is possible that it may rain tomorrow? Or is it possible that I can affect change in the people around me? The practical employment of intentional possibility is through fostering encouragement and understanding of the distinction between intentional and non-intentional possibility. Dismissing the attitude that one’s actions are irrelevant given the statistical probability of any given set of social circumstances, intentional possibility expresses the idea that one’s actions are relevant given the past analysis to anticipate future events. The future events will only mirror past events if the conditions are exactly the same. However, given the individual’s actions, the conditions/circumstances change. I consider the Humean/Kantian criticism of scientific constants, and in particular those ideas presented by figures such as Royce and Sheldrake that there are no laws of Nature, only habits of Nature, and discuss disregarding the problem of freewill vs. determinism and develop confidence in intentional possibility in real world problems.