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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]
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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Journalism in Digital Native Media: Beyond Technological Determinism
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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Arithmetic is Determinate [PDF]
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Kinds of Determinism in Science
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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Determinants of Collateral [PDF]
This paper draws upon the theory of contracting under asymmetric information to postulate and test several hypotheses concerning the relationship between the use and amount of collateral in financial loans to firms, the risk profile of the borrower, business cycle and monetary conditions of the economy, strength of the lending relation between borrower
Gabriel Jiménez +2 more
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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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Stochasticity and determinism in cell fate decisions
During development, cells need to make decisions about their fate in order to ensure that the correct numbers and types of cells are established at the correct time and place in the embryo.
C. Zechner, E. Nerli, C. Norden
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Immersive Stories: From Technological Determinism Towards Narrative Determinism
Following 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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Contingency, Free Will, and Particular Providence
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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