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Harnessing Uncertainty: Improvisation as a Model for Rapid Behavioral Expansion. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract While traditional sciences treat uncertainty as an obstacle to be minimized, this paper proposes an epistemic shift: viewing uncertainty as a resource to leverage. To enact this shift, we suggest adopting improvisation—where novel behaviors are instantaneously assembled to meet unpredictable constraints—as a model for real‐time adaptation and ...
Laroche J, D'Ausilio A.
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
The usual compatibility debates concerning moral responsibility, determinism and indeterminism tend to be all-or-nothing ("Determinism rules out responsibility!", "Undetermined actions are too lucky to be free!"). The suggestion in this paper is that the
Kearns Stephen
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Process Complexity

Complexity, Governance & Networks, 2022
We develop the ontology of “process complexity” and describe how the dynamics of “becoming” can be framed as the emerging, stabilising, and ultimate dissolving of “patterns of relationships.” By extending traditional complexity thinking through ...
Jean Boulton
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The Hole Argument, Manifold Substantivalism, and Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The hole argument has become one of the main issues in the philosophy of space-time after the article by Earman and Norton (1987), according to which a certain version of substantivalism (manifold substantivalism) cannot be defended because it brings ...
Saeed Masoumi
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The dome: An unexpectedly simple failure of determinism [PDF]

, 2008
Newton's equations of motion tell us that a mass at rest at the apex of a dome with the shape specified here can spontaneously move. It has been suggested that this indeterminism should be discounted since it draws on an incomplete rendering of Newtonian
Norton, JD
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Determinism and Divine Agency According to Allamah Tabatabaei [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 ...
Seyed Mohammad Faghih, Abdolrasoul Kashfi   +1 more
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What’s a chance event? Contrasting different senses of ‘chance’ with Aristotle’s idea of meaningful unusual accidents

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022
In this article, I present and explain ten different possible meanings of a chance event – some ontological, some epistemic – and provide examples whenever possible.
Alexander Maar
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Popper, Rationality and the Possibility of Social Science

Theoria, 2013
Social science employs teleological explanations which depend upon the rationality principle, according to which people exhibit instrumental rationality.
Danny Frederick
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Comment on ‘Quantum principle of relativity’

New Journal of Physics, 2023
Dragan and Ekert ( New J. Phys. 22 033038) have recently claimed that fundamental properties of quantum physics (e.g. fundamental indeterminism and the principle of superposition) can be derived solely from relativistic considerations, if one takes as ...
Flavio Del Santo, Sebastian Horvat
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Kantian Causality and Quantum Quarks: The Compatibility between Quantum Mechanics and Kant’s Phenomenal World

Theoria, 2013
Quantum indeterminism seems incompatible with Kant’s defense of causality in his Second Analogy. The Copenhagen interpretation also takes quantum theory as evidence for anti-realism.
Stephen R Palmquist
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