Free psychology? Why psychological research is incompatible with the requirements of clockwork determinism [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis essay argues that the concept of strict causal determinism (or “clockwork determinism”), while being a powerful doctrine to reduce uncertainty, is not compatible with the way psychology does science.
Stephan Lau, Roy Frederick Baumeister
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Consilience in Causation: Causal Emergence Is Found Across Measures of Causation [PDF]
EntropyCausation is fundamentally important to science, and yet our understanding of causation is spread out across disparate fields, with different measures of causation having been proposed in philosophy, statistics, psychology, and other areas.
Renzo Comolatti, Erik Hoel
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Causal determinism and moral responsibility [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniIn the debate between incompatibilists and compatibilists regarding the relationship between causal determinism, moral responsibility, and free will, causal determinism is identified as a potential basis for an excusing argument against moral ...
Prašević Nedžib M.
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Critique of Al-Ghazâlî's View on the Relationship between Determinism and The Free Will [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 The relationship between the free will and the philosophical rule of "causal determinism" is one of the issues that have been the subject of controversy among Islamic thinkers, theologians, and philosophers.
Keygobad Daneshian Kenanlu +2 more
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Determinism and Moral Responsibility According to Avicenna's Theory of Action [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022 The main issue of this article is how to harmonize determinism and moral responsibility (the classic problem of free will) by reconsidering the philosophy of Avicenna.
Roozbeh Zare +1 more
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Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way Forward [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 For a half - century, I have been developing a view of free will that is incompatible with determinism and, in the process, attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question about such a free will: Can one make sense of an incompatibilist or libertarian ...
Robert Kane
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Criticizing of Daniel Dennett's Argument for Compatibilism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2016 The purpose of this article is to criticize Daniel Dennett's main argument which has been formulated to explain and justify the compatibility of Human's mental phenomena, particularly his free will, with causal determinism on the basis of ontological ...
Arash khaksari renani +1 more
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Modern causal inference approaches to investigate biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships
Nature Communications, 2023 Detecting and quantifying the causal relations of ecosystem functioning is a challenging endeavor. A global study on grasslands illustrates how reasoning about underlying assumptions, from confounding and nonlinearity to fundamental questions of ...
Jakob Runge
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Determinism without causality [PDF]
Physica Scripta, 2014 Causality has been often confused with the notion of determinism. It is mandatory to separate the two notions in view of the debate about quantum foundations. Quantum theory provides an example of causal not-deterministic theory. Here we introduce a toy operational theory that is deterministic and non-causal, thus proving that the two notions of ...
D'ARIANO, GIACOMO +2 more
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Daniel Dennett’s and Sam Harris’ Confrontation on the Problem of Free Will [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 This paper seeks to explain and evaluate, by an analytic method, the conflict between determinism and free will from the viewpoint of two physicalist reductionist philosophers, namely, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. Dennett is a compatibilist philosopher
zahra khazaei +2 more
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