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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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Problem of Free Will in Determinism and Indeterminism

Philosophies
This paper re-examines the problem of free will in light of both deterministic and indeterministic assumptions about the structure of the world.
Jovan M. Tadić
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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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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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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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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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QUANTUM ASPECTS OF LIFE: RELATING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY WITH THEOLOGY VIA MODERN PHYSICS

Zygon, 2013
In the present paper, I shall argue that quantum theory can contribute to reconciling evolutionary biology with the creation hypothesis. After giving a careful definition of the theological problem, I will, in a first step, formulate necessary conditions
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Indeterminateness of Equilibria and Macroeconomics [PDF]

, 2002
The paper reviews results on indeterminateness of equilibria in two extensions of the standard (Arrow-Debreu) model of general equilibrium. These extensions, motivated by macroeconomic interpretations, concern money and price rigidities. In a natural extension to money (held for transaction purposes), if monetary policy fixes either nominal interest ...
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Epistemological and ontological indeterminism: Hayek and Schumpeter [PDF]

Panoeconomicus
The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the ideas of Friedrich von Hayek and Joseph Alois Schumpeter, who both adopted an indeterminist approach in their economic analyses, through a discussion of their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Soylu Fatma Esra
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