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Genetic Determinism and Place [PDF]
In this article, we review genetic determinism and highlight how our earlier research on the philosophy of place can contribute to a better understanding of genomics and ongoing debates about genetic modification.
Matthew Gildersleeve, Andrew Crowden
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DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA: THE PROBLEM OF DETERMINISM [PDF]
Within the framework of the study of determinism in the development of various countries of the world, several schools of scientific thought have been formed: geographical determinism, cultural and historical determinism, and the institutional school of ...
Ярошенко Галина Васильевна +1 more
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Notes on Ernest Nagel’s Philosophy of History
In this article, I analyse common arguments raised against historical determinism. I refer to the treatment given to the topic by Ernest Nagel in “Determinism in History” (1959).
Alexander Maar
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Technological Determinism versus Social Determinism, a Critical discussion
Technology influences the way human beings connect with the outside world in their day-to-day businesses. Adopting new technologies can offer opportunities. It, also, poses threats.
Daniel Tessema
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Determinism is usually understood as a commonly clear and obvious thesis. In the most of the actual literature a character of determinism is rarely enough explicitly underlined and we believe that it is the reason why common uses of the term often leads ...
Marko Vladimír
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Quantum Meta-physics: Nonlocality and Limits of Determinism
This essay aims to show that the recent development of quantum theory may provide us with an answer to one of the most compelling metaphysical problems, namely the problem of determinism. First, I sketch the conceptual background and draw the distinction
Bartosz Wesół
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]
The usual compatibility debates concerning moral responsibility, determinism and indeterminism tend to be all-or-nothing ("Determinism rules out responsibility!", "Undetermined actions are too lucky to be free!"). The suggestion in this paper is that the
Kearns Stephen
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Shadow Pauli Flow: Characterising Determinism in MBQCs involving Pauli Measurements [PDF]
We introduce a new characterisation of determinism in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC). The one-way model consists in performing local measurements over a large entangled state represented by a graph.
Mehdi Mhalla +2 more
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Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way Forward [PDF]
For a half - century, I have been developing a view of free will that is incompatible with determinism and, in the process, attempting to answer the Intelligibility Question about such a free will: Can one make sense of an incompatibilist or libertarian ...
Robert Kane
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Criticizing of Daniel Dennett's Argument for Compatibilism [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to criticize Daniel Dennett's main argument which has been formulated to explain and justify the compatibility of Human's mental phenomena, particularly his free will, with causal determinism on the basis of ontological ...
Arash khaksari renani +1 more
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