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Arguing from Molinism to Neo-Molinism [PDF]
, 2015 In a pair of recent essays, William Lane Craig has argued that certain open theist understandings of the nature of the future are both semantically and modally confused.
Hess, Elijah
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Some Aspects of Modality in Analytical Mechanics [PDF]
, 2002 This paper discusses some of the modal involvements of analytical mechanics. I first review the elementary aspects of the Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches. I then discuss two modal involvements; both are related to David Lewis' work
J. Butterfield, Paderborn Mentis
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History and Philosophy of Logic, 2022 In contemporary works on conditionals, the Ramsey test is a procedure for the evaluation of conditional sentences. There are several versions of the test, all inspired by a footnote by the British philosopher and mathematician Frank Ramsey, in his General Propositions and Causality. However, no study on Ramsey's own account of conditionals has been put
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Is There High-Level Causation? [PDF]
, 2013 The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those same sciences are less successful in formulating strict laws. If causation must be underwritten by strict laws, we are faced with a puzzle (first noticed
Glynn, Luke
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The Curse of Free-Will and the Paradox of Inevitable Regret
Journal of Causal Inference, 2013 The paradox described below aims to clarify the principles by which empirical data are harnessed to guide decision making. It is motivated by the practical question of whether empirical assessments of the effect of treatment on the treated (ETT) can be ...
Pearl Judea
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Simulational Realism—Playing as Trying to Remember
Meno Istorija ir Kritika, 2018 In this text, I describe a specific way of addressing the past in video games which are set in historical times but at the same time deliberately undermine the facticity of their virtual worlds.
Wojnowski Konrad
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On Partial Identification of the Pure Direct Effect [PDF]
, 2015 In causal mediation analysis, nonparametric identification of the pure (natural) direct effect typically relies on, in addition to no unobserved pre-exposure confounding, fundamental assumptions of (i) so-called "cross-world-counterfactuals" independence
Kanki, Phyllis +3 more
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The Deductive Approach to Causal Inference
Journal of Causal Inference, 2014 This paper reviews concepts, principles, and tools that have led to a coherent mathematical theory that unifies the graphical, structural, and potential outcome approaches to causal inference. The theory provides solutions to a number of pending problems
Pearl Judea
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Green Revolution Counterfactuals [PDF]
In this paper, we conduct two "counterfactual" simulations for the 30-year period 1970-2000-the first holding 1970 crop genetic improvements (CGI) constant and the second presuming the International Agricultural Research Center (IARC) system had not been
Evenson, Robert E. +3 more
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Truth-Makers and the Grounding Objection to Molinism [PDF]
, 2019 One of the most discussed topics on the nature of God, in Christian circles today, is the subject of God’s knowledge. There are a few popular positions today that are engaged in a serious debate as to what the true biblical and philosophical position on ...
Crown, Tyler
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