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Free psychology? Why psychological research is incompatible with the requirements of clockwork determinism [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
This essay argues that the concept of strict causal determinism (or “clockwork determinism”), while being a powerful doctrine to reduce uncertainty, is not compatible with the way psychology does science.
Stephan Lau, Roy Frederick Baumeister
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Defining determinism [PDF]

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018
The article puts forward a branching - style framework for the analysis of determinism and indeterminism of scientific theories, starting from the core idea that an indeterministic system is one whose present allows for more than one alternative possible
Müller, Thomas, Placek, Tomasz
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Notes on Ernest Nagel’s Philosophy of History

História da Historiografia, 2022
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

Ethiopian Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, 2021
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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Determinisms [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2016
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

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023
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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Maillet's Determinant [PDF]

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1955
Es sei \(p\) eine ungerade Primzahl, für ein zu \(p\) primes \(r\) sei \(R(r)\equiv r \pmod p\) mit \(0 < R (r) < p\), und nach Maillet \(D_p = \vert R(r s')\vert\), \(1\le r, s \le (p-1)/2\), wobei \(ss'\equiv 1\pmod p\) ist. Maillet fragte, ob \(D_p\ne 0\) für alle \(p\) sei. Verff.
Carlitz, Leonard, Olson, F. R.
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Towards Races in Linear Logic [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2020
Process calculi based in logic, such as $\pi$DILL and CP, provide a foundation for deadlock-free concurrent programming, but exclude non-determinism and races.
Wen Kokke, J. Garrett Morris, Philip Wadler   +2 more
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
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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Stochastic determination of matrix determinants [PDF]

Physical Review E, 2015
8 pages, 5 ...
Dorn, S., Enßlin, T.
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