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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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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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AI and the resurrection of Technological Determinism
Információs Társadalom, 2021 This paper elaborates on the connection between the AI regulation fever and the generic concept of Social Control of Technology. According to this analysis, the amplitude of the regulatory efforts may reflect the lock-in potential of the technology in ...
Mihály Héder
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualThe 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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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 +2 more
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Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence
, 2020 Deep learning techniques are growing in popularity within the field of artificial intelligence (AI). These approaches identify patterns in large scale datasets, and make classifications and predictions, which have been celebrated as more accurate than ...
Alexander Campolo, K. Crawford
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Data Journalism Beyond Technological Determinism
Journalism Studies, 2021 Innovation in journalism became an important element to determine the current and future direction of the profession. Through incremental and cumulative transformations over time, because of many obstacles faced inside the newsrooms, journalism has ...
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos +1 more
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Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 1. The state of the art
Journal of Hydraulic Research, 2020 This paper outlines the various approaches used to calculate bedload transport. As bedload transport exhibits considerable spatial and temporal variations, computing the bedload transport rates and morphological changes experienced by streambeds is ...
C. Ancey
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Determinism and General Relativity [PDF]
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2020 We investigate the fate of determinism in general relativity (GR), comparing the philosopher’s account with the physicist’s well-posed initial value formulations. The fate of determinism is interwoven with the question of what it is for a spacetime to be
C. Smeenk, C. Wüthrich
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