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Effects of Causal Determinism on Causal Learning Trajectories [PDF]

, 2020
Research on causal learning suggests that people are capable of learning nondeterministic causal relations, but might expectcausal relations to be deterministic in certain contexts. In two experiments, we demonstrated that peoples expectations ofcausal determinism are context-sensitive and can influence causal judgments in a sequential learning task ...
Dinh, Phuong (Phoebe), Danks, David
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A Freewheeling Defense of Kant's Resolution of the Third Antinomy [PDF]

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008
In the Critique of Pure Reason, in a chapter of the Transcendental Dialectic entitled "The Antinomy of Pure Reason," Kant addresses the question whether a thoroughgoing mechanistic determinism is reconcilable with the ascription of free agency to human ...
Todd D. Janke
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Causal efficacy and the normative notion of sustainability science

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2011
Sustainability science requires both a descriptive understanding and a normative approach. Modern science, however, began as purely descriptive knowledge, the core of which is that matter is dynamically inert and without purpose.
Lin-Shu Wang
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Construction of the originality criterion for AIGC

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With the popularization of generative artificial intelligence technology, the issue of copyright for AIGC is highlighted. The originality criterion under traditional “instrumental theory” and “contribution theory” is particularly inadequate when it is ...
LI Yiheng, ZHANG Zheng
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PARADIGMS OF BELIEF, THEORY AND METATHEORY

Zygon, 1992
. My account of the recent turnabout in the treatment of mental states in science and its basis in a modified concept of causal determinism and my claim that this opens the way for beliefs and values consistent with science are here reaffirmed in ...
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Causality and Determinism: Tension, or Outright Conflict?

Revista de Filosofia, 2005
In the philosophical tradition, the notions of determinism and causality are it is assumed that in a world of deterministic laws, causality may be said to reign supreme; and in any world where the causality is strong enough, determinism must hold. I will
Carl Hoefer
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Providence and God�s emergent will through prayer as it relates to determinism and healing

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2007
The paper has a twofold purpose. The first is to explore: if God has settled His plans and He will do what He is going to do, then does it matter whether one prays or not?
M Pretorius
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Rethinking Human and Machine Intelligence under Determinism

Prometeica
This paper proposes a metaphysical framework for distinguishing between human and machine intelligence. It posits two identical deterministic worlds -- one comprising a human agent and the other a machine agent.
Jae Jeong Lee
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NEWTONIAN CAUSALITY DETERMINANT FOR HUMIAN CAUSALITY?

PÓLEMOS – Revista de Estudantes de Filosofia da Universidade de Brasília, 2014
The 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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A Symmetrical Approach to Causality in Biology

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2012
The purely genetic description of embryogenesis has recently been challenged. Some papers then pay special attention to the causal effects of mechanical constraints.
Nicole Perret
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