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Free will, causation, and Sartorio’s Causation and Free Will
Prolegomena : Časopis za filozofiju, 2020 No matter what side one takes in the debate about free will, one will also have to accept certain metaphysical assumptions about causation and causal laws and, consequently, posit a certain ontological framework. In Causation and Free Will, Sartorio develops a compatibilist, actual causal sequence account of free will which is grounded on certain ...
Anić, Zvonimir, Pećnjak, Davor
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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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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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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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Causation in Psychoanalysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 It has been argued that psychoanalytic and biological theories cannot be integrated because they rely on different epistemological grounds, namely on hermeneutic versus causal explanations, that are inconsistent with each other. Such inconsistency would seriously question the general possibility of neuropsychoanalytic research.
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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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