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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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Induction without Probabilities [PDF]

, 2007
A simple indeterministic system is displayed and it is urged that we cannot responsibly infer inductively over it if we presume that the probability calculus is the appropriate logic of induction.
Norton, John D
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A Study on the Concept of "Uncertainty" in Ceramic Art

Art and Interpretation
Uncertainty is a concept at the intersection of various disciplines, such as art, philosophy, and science. Although it often has a negative connotation, it is a force that stimulates creativity.
Sinan Avinal, Aygün Dinçer Kırca
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Evolution Nodes in Newtonian Supertasks

Theoria, 2009
The present article provides an analysis of the instants of a system that performs a Newtonian supertask. For each instant it studied the possibility of the system having, from the instant in question, more than one possible course of evolution.
Luis Carlos Medina
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Perceiving indeterminately

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2020
It has been argued recently that perception is indeterminate. But there are more than one ways of spelling out what this means. The standard line is that perceptual states attribute different probabilities to different propositions. I provide an alternative to this view, where it is not the attitude, but the content of perceptual states that is ...
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Music and madness: from divine lyre to indeterminism

Brocar. Cuadernos de investigación histórica, 2013
The idea of musical inspiration, understood as a kind of madness –divine and human–, had a long tradition in the West, starting with the Greek mysteries under the mythological notion of enthusiasm, mania or divine furor (present from Homer to Plato ...
Daniel Martín Sáez
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The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics. [PDF]

Found Phys, 2023
Santo FD, Gisin N.
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The Problem of Determinism - Freedom as Self-Determination [PDF]

, 2010
There are arguments for determinism. Admittedly, this is opposed by the fact of everyday experience of autonomy. In the following, it is argued for the compatibility of determinism and autonomy.
Wandschneider, Dieter
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Mechanical Choices: A Compatibilist Libertarian Response. [PDF]

Crim Law Philos, 2023
List C.
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The Grin of Schrödinger's Cat; Quantum Photography and the limits of Representation [PDF]

, 2013
The famous quantum physics experiment 'Schrödinger's cat' suggests that some situations are undecidable, i.e. they exist outside of the normative distinctions between 'truth' and 'false' because both states can co-exist under certain conditions.
Rubinstein, Daniel
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