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Kinds of Determinism in Science [PDF]
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2019 Determinism is a doctrine or assumption best defined in the realm of the natural sciences. In this paper I explain in detail the four senses of determinism, from the most fundamental metaphysical sense, to the most complex epistemic (predictive) sense. I
Alexander Maar
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Who's afraid of determinism? [PDF]
, 2014 Because of the idealizations involved in the ideas of a total state of the world and of all the laws of nature, the thesis of all-encompassing determinism is unverifiable.
Stevenson, Leslie, Leslie Stevenson
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Genetic Determinism and the Innate-Acquired Distinction in Medicine [PDF]
, 2009 Kronfeldner M. Genetic Determinism and the Innate-Acquired Distinction in Medicine. Medicine Studies. 2009;1(2):167-181.This article illustrates in which sense genetic determinism is still part of the contemporary interactionist consensus in medicine ...
Maria E. Kronfeldner, Kronfeldner, Maria
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Determinism Beyond Time Evolution [PDF]
, 2022 Physicists are increasingly beginning to take seriously the possibility of laws outside the traditional time-evolution paradigm; yet many popular definitions of determinism are still predicated on a time-evolution picture, making them manifestly unsuited
Adlam, Emily
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Environmental determinism and archaeology. Understanding and evaluating determinism in research design [PDF]
, 2019 With the emergence of modern techniques of environmental analysis and widespread availability of accessible tools and quantitative data, the question of environmental determinism is once again on the agenda.
Hinz, Martin +9 more
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“Free Will and Affirmation: Assessing Honderich’s Third Way” [PDF]
, 2017 In the third and final part of his A Theory of Determinism (TD) Ted Honderich addresses the fundamental question concerning “the consequences of determinism.” The critical question he aims to answer is what follows if determinism is true?
Russell, Paul, +2 more
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The Norton Dome and the Nineteenth Century Foundations of Determinism [PDF]
, 2012 The recent discovery of an indeterministic system in classical mechanics, the Norton dome, has shown that answering the question whether classical mechanics is deterministic can be a complicated matter.
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Contingency, Free Will, and Particular Providence
Religions, 2021 The results from contemporary science, especially the theory of evolution and quantum physics, seem to favor process theology. Moreover, the evil committed by free will leads some theologians to reduce divine action in order to prevent God from being ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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A Survey on Parallelism and Determinism [PDF]
, 2022 International audienceParallelism is often required for performance. In these situations an excess of non-determinism is harmful as it means the program can have several different behaviours or even different results.
Radanne, Gabriel +3 more
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Immersive Stories: From Technological Determinism Towards Narrative Determinism
Media and CommunicationFollowing the wave of immersive production that occurred between 2015 and 2018, and in the face of new virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality devices, this article discusses the need to move from a technology- or device-focused perspective in the analysis
Jorge Vázquez-Herrero
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