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God Does Not Play Dice: Causal Determinism and Preschoolers' Causal Inferences
Child Development, 2006Three studies investigated children's belief in causal determinism. If children are determinists, they should infer unobserved causes whenever observed causes appear to act stochastically. In Experiment 1, 4‐year‐olds saw a stochastic generative cause and inferred the existence of an unobserved inhibitory cause. Children traded off inferences about the
Laura E, Schulz, Jessica, Sommerville
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Causality, Determinism and Probability
Philosophy, 1949The prediction of future events from our knowledge of past events is one of the main functions of Science. Such predictions are made possible by inferring causal relations between events from observed regularities. These relations are then codified into “laws of nature,” and it is through knowledge of these laws that prediction becomes possible.
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Causality, Effectiveness, Determinism
2013The author describes his conception of the relationship of such philosophical concepts as causality, effectiveness and determinism. The notions of material causality and teleonomic causality are compared. The study shows the difference between the doctrines of monocausalism and conditionalism. Causality is interpreted as a special case of effectiveness,
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Causality: Independence and Determinism
1999What is the relationship between causality and probability? I shall be discussing a tradition that concerns itself with generic causal claims, such as “Aspirins relieve headaches” or “Electromagnetic forces cause motions perpendicular to the line of action”. These contrast with singular claims, e.g.
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Genetic determinism, essentialism and reductionism: semantic clarity for contested science
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022Kathryn Paige Harden
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New social relations of digital technology and the future of work: Beyond technological determinism
New Technology, Work and Employment, 2023Simon Joyce, Charles Umney
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Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape
Science, 2018Zachary D Blount +2 more
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