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Criticizing of Daniel Dennett's Argument for Compatibilism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2016 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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“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?
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Determinism and inevitability [PDF]
, 2006 In Freedom Evolves, Dan Dennett embarks on his second book-length attempt to lay to rest the deep metaphysical concerns that many philosophers have expressed about the possibility of human freedom.One of his main objectives in the earlier chapters of the
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Nova Prisutnost, 2019 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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Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way Forward [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 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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Kinds of Determinism in Science
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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Quantum Theory and Determinism [PDF]
, 2014 Historically, appearance of the quantum theory led to a prevailing view that Nature is indeterministic. The arguments for the indeterminism and proposals for indeterministic and deterministic approaches are reviewed.
Vaidman, Lev
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Scheduler-specific Confidentiality for Multi-Threaded Programs and Its Logic-Based Verification [PDF]
, 2011 Observational determinism has been proposed in the literature as a way to ensure confidentiality for multi-threaded programs. Intuitively, a program is observationally deterministic if the behavior of the public variables is deterministic, i.e ...
Huisman, Marieke, Ngo, Minh Tri
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Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails an Intrinsic Time Arrow. a Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy [PDF]
, 1999 Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction therefore arises between two statements of Hawking.
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Denotational, Causal, and Operational Determinism in Event Structures [PDF]
, 1995 Determinism is a theoretically and practically important concept in labelled transition systems and trees. We study its generalisation to event structures.
Rensink, Arend
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