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Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]

, 2010
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
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On the idea that all future tensed contingents are false

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 209-216, June 2025.
Anthony Bigg, Kristie Miller
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Popper and Free Will

Studia Philosophica Estonica, 2010
Determinism seems incompatible with free will. However, even indeterminism seems incompatible with free will, since it seems to make free actions random. Popper contends that free agents are not bound by physical laws, even indeterministic ones, and that
Danny Frederick
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Moral Responsibility and Time Travel in an Indeterministic World

Philosophies
I have argued against the Principle of Alternative Possibilities using a time travel-based counterexample. Kelly McCormick has responded to my counterexample by arguing that the time travel scenario must be a scenario in which a time traveler’s actions ...
Joshua Spencer
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Compatibilism, Indeterminism, and Chance

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2018
Many contemporary compatibilists about free will and determinism are agnostic about whether determinism is true, yet do not doubt that we have free will.
P. Mackie
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Defining a Relativity-Proof Notion of the Present via Spatio-temporal Indeterminism

Foundations of physics, 2019
In this paper we describe a novel approach to defining an ontologically fundamental notion of co-presentness that does not go against the tenets of relativity theory.
T. Müller
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Black Hole Evaporation Entails an Objective Passage of Time [PDF]

, 1998
Time's apparent passage has long been debated by philosophers, with no decisive argument for or against its objective existence. In this paper we show that introducing the issue of determinism gives the debate a new, empirical twist.
Dolev, Shahar, Elitzur, Avshalom C.
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Circular causality and indeterminism in machines for design

Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2014
Presenting a hard-to-predict typography-varying system predicated on Nazi-era cryptography, the Enigma cipher machine, this paper illustrates conditions under which unrepeatable phenomena can arise, even from straight-forward mechanisms.
Thomas Fischer
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Potentiality realism: a realistic and indeterministic physics based on propensities. [PDF]

Eur J Philos Sci, 2023
Del Santo F, Gisin N.
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Determinismo/indeterminismo y determinación: implicaciones en el campo de la salud pública / Determinism/indeterminism and determination: implications in the field of public health

Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, 2013
El objetivo es analizar las categorías de determinismo e indeterminismo en el campo de la salud pública y plantear las diferencias de estas categorías con la de determinación social propuesta en el contexto de la salud pública latinoamericana. Se
Diego A. Restrepo-Ocho
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