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Denotational, Causal, and Operational Determinism in Event Structures [PDF]
, 1995 Determinism is a theoretically and practically important concept in labelled transition systems and trees. We study its generalisation to event structures.
Rensink, Arend
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What kind of free will did the Buddha teach? [PDF]
, 2010 The modern version of the problem of free will is usually described as a collision between two beliefs: the belief that we are free to choose our actions and the belief that our actions are determined by prior necessary causes.
Federman, Asaf
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The Compatibility of Free Will and Determinism in Modern Western Compatibilists and Mulla Sadra [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2014 The significance of determinism/ free will dilemma is clear by all enlightened mind as our approach in this regard has a straight influence on our theoretical worldview and scientific orientations in individual and social life.
Fakhrossadat Alavi, Yousof Shaghool
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An efficient two-tier causal protocol for mobile distributed systems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Causal ordering is a useful tool for mobile distributed systems (MDS) to reduce the non-determinism induced by three main aspects: host mobility, asynchronous execution, and unpredictable communication delays. Several causal protocols for MDS exist. Most
Eduardo Lopez Dominguez +3 more
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Sobre a tese de que a bivalência implica o determinismo causal, do estoicismo ao aristotelismo
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2021 According to Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, the Platonic philosopher Claudius Nicostratus (fl. mid-2nd c. A.D.) challenges Aristotle’s claim in the Categories to the effect that statements about future contingents are neither true nor ...
Paulo Ferreira
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Mumford and Anjum on incompatibilism, powers and determinism [PDF]
, 2014 Mumford and Anjum (2014) present a new argument for the incompatibility of free will and causal determinism. Although their argument depends on the assumption that free will is, or is the exercise of, a causal power, it does not appeal to any special ...
Mackie, Penelope
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Evaluation of Frankfurt's Viewpoint in the Face of Indirect Consequence Argument [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017 The different versions of van Inwagen’s indirect argument for the incompatibility of causal determinism and moral responsibility asserts that (1) the causal necessity and determination indicates that human actions are the results of past events and the ...
Javad Danesh
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Traditional Compatibilism Reformulated and Defended [PDF]
, 2017 Traditional compatibilism about free will is widely considered to be untenable. In particular, the conditional analysis of the ability to do otherwise appears to be subject to clear counterexamples.
Schlosser, Markus E.
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The Ontology of Intentional Agency in Light of Neurobiological Determinism: Philosophy Meets Folk Psychology [PDF]
, 2017 The moot point of the Western philosophical rhetoric about free will consists in examining whether the claim of authorship to intentional, deliberative actions fits into or is undermined by a one-way causal framework of determinism.
A Mele +27 more
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Biomolecules, 2023 Practically unknown outside of China, the “endometrial determinism” theory was proposed to account for the apparent gap between the relatively low prevalence of endometriosis and nearly universal retrograde menstruation.
Sun-Wei Guo +2 more
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