is responsible for the theory of DETERMINISM?

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A single person cannot take sole credit for our conceptions of detereminism. The theory of determinism comes from casual relationships in the material universe.

i.e. John threw a rock at a window, the glass broke, therefore the rock caused the glass to break.

Why do we conceed that one event caused another? The approapiate question is "What" not who is responsible. Is it natarul laws in the material universe, or is it human rationality.

i.e. Of course the rock caused the window to break look at the evidence. "Evidentialism"
The rock causing the window to break comes from base human rational assupmtions of sensory experience. "Rationalism"

In the West, the Ancient Greek atomists Leucippus and Democritus were the first to anticipate determinism when they theorized that all processes in the world were due to the mechanical interplay of atoms, but this theory did not gain much support at the time. Determinism in the West is often associated with Newtonian physics, which depicts the physical matter of the universe as operating according to a set of fixed, knowable laws.Some of the philosophers who have dealt with this issue are Omar Khayyám, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d'Holbach (Paul Heinrich Dietrich), Immanuel Kant, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche and, more recently, John Searle, Ted Honderich, and Daniel Dennett.

It's an old idea in philosophy, going back many centuries, but determinism reached its height and glory in the French mathematician Pierre-Simon de LaPlace.

Whether or not we have free will is a quesiton that has been in philosophy forever. But Compatalist had a few thinkers that took free will and determinism to another level. Compatibilists maintain that determinism is compatible with free will. A common strategy employed by "classical compatibilists", such as Thomas Hobbes, is to claim that a person acts freely only when the person willed the act and the person could have done otherwise, if the person had decided to. Hobbes sometimes attributes such compatibilist freedom to the person and not to some abstract notion of will, asserting, for example, that "no liberty can be inferred to the will, desire, or inclination, but the liberty of the man; which consisteth in this, that he finds no stop, in doing what he has the will, desire, or inclination to doe." In articulating this crucial proviso, David Hume writes, "this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one who is not a prisoner and in chains."