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Causality, Determinism, and Free Will
1986According to my experience, the two most common kinds of questions biology students ask when encountering a new structure or process are the following: What is the cause? What is the purpose (or function)? An answer to the two questions is often considered tantamount to an understanding of the phenomena.
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Causality, Determinism And Freedom Of The Will
Philosophy, 1964The classical determinist argument is that every event has a cause, that every event in the universe is an effect whose sufficient and necessary conditions are the state of the universe immediately preceding it. For this reason we could not have done otherwise than we did.
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NEWTONIAN CAUSALITY DETERMINANT FOR HUMIAN CAUSALITY?
2014The present article aims to analyze if the causality, as presented by David Hume, has any influence from the causality as developed by Newton, as some authors defend. Therefore, this article analyses the philosophical context which inserted Newton, how Hume evaluates Newton, and if his definitions of causality intertwine.
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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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Determinism, Counterfactuals, and Decision
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021Alexander Sandgren +1 more
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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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Determinism andCausalFeedbackLoops inMontesquieu'sExplanations for theMilitaryRise andFall ofRome
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2013Paul Schuurman
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