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The Concept of Free Will as an Infinite Metatheoretic Recursion [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015 It is argued that the concept of free will, like the concept of truth in formal languages, requires a separation between an object level and a meta-level for being consistently defined.
Hashim Hanaan, Srikanth Radhakrishna
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Kant on Free Will and Theoretical Rationality
Ideas y Valores, 2018 The focus of this essay is Kant’s argument in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (GMS) III that regarding oneself as rational implies regarding oneself as free.
Daniel Wolt
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Social Cognitive Theory : A Bandura Thought Review published in 1982-2012
Psikodimensia: Kajian Ilmiah Psikologi, 2019 This article was about reviewing ten of Albert Bandura's scientific works on Social Cognitive Theory published in journals, textbooks, and handbooks. Bandura has elaborated the social learning process with cognitive and behavioral factors that influence ...
Sri Muliati Abdullah
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Determining Causal Skeletons with Information Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 Modeling a causal association as arising from a communication process between cause and effect, simplifies the discovery of causal skeletons. The communication channels enabling these communication processes, are fully characterized by stochastic tensors, and therefore allow us to use linear algebra.
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Determinism and the possibility of morality
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2012 The possibility of morality in a causally determined physical world engages philosophers in a serious debate. Many philosophers think that morality is not possible in a world where everything, including human actions, is determined by antecedent causal ...
Dr. Zahoor H. Baber
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Inextendibilty of the Maximal Global Hyperbolic Development in Electrogowdy spacetimes
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013 The problem of determinism in General Relativity appears even if one assumes that the spacetime is globally hyperbolic, i.e. that it contains a hypersurface that is intersected by any causal curve exactly once.
Nungesser Ernesto
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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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CAUSALITY and DETERMINISM IN ECONOMICS [PDF]
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1994 A great deal of recent methodological discussion in economics and econometrics has been dominated by the question of the appropriate role of the concepts of causality and determinism. This paper traces the evolution of these two notions in recent economics literature, and seeks to appraise the current range of professional opinion.
Stavros A. Drakopoulos +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, people are arguably not the ultimate source of their actions nor could they have done otherwise
Ivar R. Hannikainen +44 more
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How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012 Conscious ‘free will’ is problematic because 1) brain mechanisms causing consciousness are unknown, 2) measurable brain activity correlating with conscious perception apparently occurs too late for real-time conscious response, consciousness thus being ...
Stuart eHameroff
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