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Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2020 Bergson argues that there is an incompatibility between free will and determinism: while free will has a dimension of creation, of invention, determinism corresponds to the idea that the future is fixed in advance by laws.
Joel Dolbeault
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Prior’s turn from determinism to indeterminism [PDF]
, 2023 Indeterminism assumes a central place in Arthur Norman Prior’s invention and development of modern tense logic. Before this indeterminism, Prior was for a number of years a devout determinist.
Jakobsen, David; id_orcid +6 more
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Untangling Determinism: Revisiting the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the * Post-Avicennian Debates on Free Will [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2023 Avicenna was one of the premodern philosophers who argued for the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), namely the claim that everything has a cause and that no uncaused beings can exist.
10.12658/Nazariyat.9.2.M0210en
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An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas [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 ...
Mahbobeh Vahdatipoor +2 more
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Compatibilism by degrees [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualThe 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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A branching space-times view on quantum error correction [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper we describe some first steps for bringing the framework of branching space-times to bear on quantum information theory. Our main application is quantum error correction.
Muller, Thomas
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Między Oryginałem a Przekładem, 2019 About Some Poems of Hans Faverey (1933-1990) Representation, as an actualisation of a text, is the real object of translation. In order to better understand the implications of this theoretical position, it is explored through the study of ...
Spiros Macris
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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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Nonconservation of Energy and Loss of Determinism. II. Colliding with an open set. [PDF]
, 2009 An actual infinity of colliding balls can be in a configuration in which the laws of mechanics lead to logical inconsistency. It is argued that one should therefore limit the domain of these laws to a finite, or only a potentially infinite number of ...
Atkinson, David +3 more
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Otwarty teizm – teologiczny ‘wymysł’ czy sensowna propozycja?
Scientia et Fides, 2015 Open Theism – theological ‘figment’ or sensible proposition?Open theism is a theological position, which shook the evangelical Protestantism, provoking a theological debate on the doctrine of God and on the relation between Creator and creation in its ...
Damian Dorocki
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