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Can Physics Make Us Free?

Frontiers in Physics, 2017
A thoroughly physical view on reality and our common sense view on agency and free will seem to be in a direct conflict with each other: if everything that happens is determined by prior physical events, so too are all our actions and conscious decisions;
Tuomas K. Pernu, Tuomas K. Pernu
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Ginet's principle: Our freedom is the freedom to add to the given past [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
This paper is a defense of the principle: All the worlds that are might-worlds in the world x are worlds that share some of their momentary states with x (A (possible) world y is a might-world in the world x if it is true in x that if someone were to do ...
van Inwagen Peter
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Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism (J. A. Blair Prize, 2005)

Informal Logic, 2004
In The Uses of Argument, Toulmin proposed a distinction between fielddependent and field-invariant standards for argument appraisal that gave rise to a relativistic understanding of his theory.
Lilian Bermejo-Luque
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Explanation, confirmation, and Hempel's paradox [PDF]

, 2017
Hempel’s Converse Consequence Condition (CCC), Entailment Condition (EC), and Special Consequence Condition (SCC) have some prima facie plausibility when taken individually.
Roche, William
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The Counterfactual Structure of the Consequence Argument [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 2019
This paper revisits a well-known rebuttal of Peter van Inwagen’s consequence argument. This CS-rebuttal, as I shall call it, focuses on the counterfactual structure of alternative possibilities. It shows that the ability to do otherwise is such that if the agent had exercised it, the distant past and/or the laws of nature would have been different.
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First-order modal logic in the necessary framework of objects [PDF]

, 2016
I consider the first-order modal logic which counts as valid those sentences which are true on every interpretation of the non-logical constants. Based on the assumptions that it is necessary what individuals there are and that it is necessary which ...
Fritz, Peter
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Revisiting Born’s Rule through Uhlhorn’s and Gleason’s Theorems

Entropy, 2022
In a previous article we presented an argument to obtain (or rather infer) Born’s rule, based on a simple set of axioms named “Contexts, Systems and Modalities" (CSM).
Alexia Auffèves, Philippe Grangier
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Inference Claims

Informal Logic, 2011
A conclusion follows from given premisses if and only if an acceptable counterfactual-supporting covering generalization of the argument rules out, either definitively or with some modal qualification, simultaneous acceptability of the premisses and non ...
David Hitchcock
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The Case of the Missing Premise

Informal Logic, 1995
This paper suggests that the flaw in the enthymeme approach to argument analysis is in the requirement, as I come to formulate it, that an argument be restated as a premises-and-conclusion sequence.
Don S. Levi
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Conditions of Having or not Having a Child after Marriage Based on Fegh and Law [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامه حقوق اسلامی, 2015
One of the challenging issues for the young couples, sometimes leading to deep and harsh differences and argument (between the two parties) is the problem of having a child or not.
Javad Niknejad
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