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Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 2. Challenges and prospects

open access: yesJournal of Hydraulic Research, 2020
By the late nineteenth century, the scientific study of bedload transport had emerged as an offshoot of hydraulics and geomorphology. Since then, computing bedload transport rates has attracted considerable attention, but whereas other environmental ...
C. Ancey
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Physics without determinism: Alternative interpretations of classical physics [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review A, 2019
Classical physics is generally regarded as deterministic, as opposed to quantum mechanics that is considered the first theory to have introduced genuine indeterminism into physics.
F. Del Santo, N. Gisin
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Making Sense of a Free Will that is Incompatible with Determinism: A Fourth Way Forward [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/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
doaj   +1 more source

Embodying the past, designing the future: technological determinism reconsidered in technology education

open access: yesInternational Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
From a philosophical viewpoint, technological design is about connecting what is desirable with what is technically possible. Technology itself plays a major role in design processes, not only because technology development is what designing is all about,
Jonas Hallström
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Genetic Determinism and Place

open access: yesNova 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
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain

open access: yesMicrobiome, 2018
The relative importance of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities is unclear, as are the possible influences that alter the balance between these.
Yu-liang Shi   +10 more
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Journalism in Digital Native Media: Beyond Technological Determinism

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2020
This article reflects on the conceptualisation and practise of journalism in European digital native media. The way news is produced and consumed in the digital era knocks down the boundaries that once divided professionals, citizens, and activists.
Berta García-Orosa   +2 more
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Kinds of Determinism in Science

open access: yesPrincipia: 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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Contingency, Free Will, and Particular Providence

open access: yesReligions, 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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Nature and nurture: confluence of pathway determinism with metabolic and chemical serendipity diversifies Monascus azaphilone pigments.

open access: yesNatural product reports (Print), 2019
Covering: up to June 2018 Understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms that generate the astounding structural complexity and variety of fungal secondary metabolites (FSMs) remains a challenge.
Wanping Chen   +3 more
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