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Acts that Kill and Acts that Do Not — A Philosophical Analysis of the Dead Donor Rule
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2021 In response to recent debates on the need to abandon the Dead Donor Rule (DDR) to facilitate vital-organ transplantation, I claim that, through a detailed philosophical analysis of the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) and the DDR, some acts that
Cheng-Chih Tsai
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Promises, Expectations & Causation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni +3 more
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The principle of causation based on judicial and administrative opinions [PDF]
مطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامیfact that the verdict should be justified, documented, and reasonable, and its legal and material elements should be stated. Verdicts without any causation do not mean anything and are rarely issued; however, there are several instances in which the ...
Abbas Zeraat +3 more
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Tamsulosin and risk of priapism: A causality assessment using Austin Bradford Hill Criteria
Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2022 Tamsulosin hydrochloride, a selective alpha‐adrenergic blocking agent has been previously associated with priapism. Priapism is a medically serious condition that, if not intervened, can cause permanent erectile dysfunction.
Mulugeta Russom +4 more
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Сучасні інформаційні системи, 2022 The subject of research in the article is is the processes of constructing explanations in intelligent systems using causal relationships. The aim is to develop a representation of the entities of the subject area, taking into account the temporal ...
Serhii Chalyi, Volodymyr Leshchynskyi
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Journal of Applied Logics, 2023 Summary: Causality is a feature in a socio-economical context rapidly moving towards an ethical use of robust artificial intelligence. The primary link between causation and argumentation, especially in AI, stems from the fundamental role of causality in explanations, as argued in several works in the explainable artificial intelligence literature.
Bochman, Alexander +2 more
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What Might a Theory of Causation Do for Sport?
Philosophies, 2019 The purpose of this research is to articulate how a theory of causation might be serviceable to a theory of sport. This article makes conceptual links between Bernard Suits’ theory of game-playing, causation, and theories of causation. It justifies
Evan Thomas Knott
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Does Lewis’ Theory of Causation Permit Time Travel?
Philosophies, 2021 David Lewis aimed to give an account of causation, and in particular, a semantics for the counterfactuals to which his account appeals, that is compatible with backwards causation and time travel. I will argue that he failed, but not for the reasons that
Phil Dowe
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Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019 Was Robert Boyle an occasionalist? And if so, what kind of occasionalist was he? These questions have long troubled commentators, as Boyle’s texts often seem to offer both endorsements of occasionalism and affirmations of bodies’ causal powers.
Daniel Layman
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From Neuroscience to Law: Bridging the Gap
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Since our moral and legal judgments are focused on our decisions and actions, one would expect information about the neural underpinnings of human decision-making and action-production to have a significant bearing on those judgments.
Tuomas K. Pernu +2 more
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