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Compatibilism, Indeterminism, and Chance [PDF]
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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Agent Inaccessibility as a Fundamental Principle in Quantum Mechanics: Objective Unpredictability and Formal Uncomputability [PDF]
Entropy, 2018 The inaccessibility to the experimenter agent of the complete quantum state is well-known. However, decisive answers are still missing for the following question: What underpins and governs the physics of agent inaccessibility?
Jan Walleczek
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Harnessing Uncertainty: Improvisation as a Model for Rapid Behavioral Expansion. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract 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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Probability Theory as a Physical Theory Points to Superdeterminism [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Probability theory as a physical theory is, in a sense, the most general physics theory available, more encompassing than relativity theory and quantum mechanics, which comply with probability theory.
Louis Vervoort
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Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2004 Indeterminate colitis (IC) originally referred to those 10–15% of cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which there was difficulty distinguishing between ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) in the colectomy specimen. However, IC is increasingly used when a definitive diagnosis of UC or CD cannot be made at colonoscopy, in colonic ...
William, Hale +5 more
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Simondon and Bohm between determinism and indeterminism [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2022 The radical redefinition of the landscape of physics that followed the contributions of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg at the start of the 20th century led to plethora [of] new perspectives on age-old metaphysical questions on determinism and ...
Jovićević Andrej
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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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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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Prior’s turn from determinism to indeterminism
Logic and philosophy of time, 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.
P. Hasle, J. David
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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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