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Causality re-established [PDF]
, 2018 Causality never gained the status of a "law" or "principle" in physics. Some recent literature even popularized the false idea that causality is a notion that should be banned from theory.
Bunge M +8 more
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Molinist Gunslingers Redux: A Friendly Response to Greg Welty
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018 Philosopher Greg Welty contributed a chapter entitled ‘Molinist Gunslingers: God and the Authorship of Sin’, to a book devoted to answering the charge that Calvinism makes God the author of sin (Calvinism and the Problem of Evil).
Keathley Kenneth D.
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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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Causality and determination revisited [PDF]
Synthese, 2021 AbstractIt seems to be a platitude that there must be a close connection between causality and the laws of nature: the laws somehow cover in general what happens in each specific case of causation. But so-called singularists disagree, and it is often thought that the locus classicus for that kind of dissent is Anscombe's famous Causality & ...
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Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 In this article, I present and explain ten different possible meanings of a chance event – some ontological, some epistemic – and provide examples whenever possible.
Alexander Maar
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Expectations of Causal Determinism in Causal Learning.
, 2022 Causal learning is shaped by people’s prior beliefs, including their expectations. In this paper, we specifically examine expectations of determinism: do they vary with perceptual features of physical causal events, and how do they influence subsequent causal learning from data?
Dinh, Phuong (Phoebe) Ngoc, Danks, David
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The Principle of the Causal Openness of the Physical
Organon F, 2019 The argument from causal closure for physicalism requires the principle that a physical event can only occur through being necessitated by antecedent physical events.
Daniel von Wachter
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Determinism and Divine Agency According to Allamah Tabatabaei [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Seyed Mohammad Faghih +1 more
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Improving Causal Determination
Global Epidemiology, 2019 Holistic expert judgments about causality are widely used in regulatory risk assessments, with causal determination categories being used to summarize huge amounts of complex evidence and to help inform and drive major regulatory decisions. The causal determination categories used typically cover a relatively narrow range (e.g., from “causal ...
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An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Mahbobeh Vahdatipoor +2 more
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