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Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
wiley   +1 more source

PSR, Modal Collapse, and Open Future in Ibn Sīnā's Philosophy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been contended that the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) implies necessitarianism—that is, the view that everything occurs out of necessity. Discussing a well‐known argument for this claim developed by contemporary metaphysicians, I show that Ibn Sīnā has anticipated a counterpart of this argument, and that is precisely why he is ...
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
wiley   +1 more source

Creative Work as Seen Through the ATHENA Competency Model. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Lamri J, Valentini K, Zamana F, Lubart T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

Robotics in Interventional Cardiology: Where Are We? And How Can We Expand? [PDF]

Korean Circ J
Kang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
wiley   +1 more source

Irrational dynamics, superpitchfork bifurcation, and equilibrium hierarchy in a mass-spring system exhibiting chaos and bursting. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abobda LT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pass the Buck to Reasons for What? On How to Characterise the Response Component of the Buck‐Passing Analysis of Value

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to defenders of the popular buck‐passing account of value (the BPA of value), values should be understood in terms of reasons for pro‐ and con‐responses. While much has been said about how to understand the normative component of the BPA of value, that is, how to understand ‘reasons’, including how to distinguish between reasons that
Marta Johansson Werkmäster, Jakob Werkmäster   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peer Review in the Artificial Intelligence Era: A Call for Developing Responsible Integration Guidelines. [PDF]

Nat Sci Sleep
BaHammam AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

How to be reviewer 2: Lessons in academic curmudgeonry. [PDF]

Med Educ
Kinnear B, Govender L, Church HR.
europepmc   +1 more source