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Nonconservation of Energy and Loss of Determinism. II. Colliding with an open set. [PDF]
, 2009 An actual infinity of colliding balls can be in a configuration in which the laws of mechanics lead to logical inconsistency. It is argued that one should therefore limit the domain of these laws to a finite, or only a potentially infinite number of ...
Atkinson, David +3 more
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About Freedom, Determinism and Technodeterminism [PDF]
In Medias Res, 2012 What is ‘technological determinism’? Was Marshall McLuhan a ‘technological determinist’? The text compares different meanings of the term ‘determinism’.
Sead Alić
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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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Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 2017 The problem with reductionism in biology is not the reduction, but the implicit attitude of determinism that usually accompanies it. Methodological reductionism is supported by deterministic beliefs, but making such a connection is problematic when it is
Leonore Fleming
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Deterministic Quantum Mechanics: The Mathematical Equations
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 Without wasting time and effort on philosophical justifications and implications, we write down the conditions for the Hamiltonian of a quantum system for rendering it mathematically equivalent to a deterministic system.
Gerard 't Hooft
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Forget the Folk: Moral Responsibility Preservation Motives and Other Conditions for Compatibilism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 For years, experimental philosophers have attempted to discern whether laypeople find free will compatible with a scientifically deterministic understanding of the universe, yet no consensus has emerged.
Cory J. Clark +3 more
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An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Mahbobeh Vahdatipoor +2 more
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Determinism and Indeterminism [PDF]
, 2005 Determinism is a rich and varied concept. At an abstract level of analysis, Jordan Howard Sobel (1998) identifies at least ninety varieties of what determinism could be like.
Bishop, Robert C.
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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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Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2015 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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