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Is Time Travel Too Strange to Be Possible? Determinism and Indeterminism on Closed Timelike Curves

, 2017
Notoriously, the Einstein equations of general relativity have solutions in which closed timelike curves (CTCs) occur. On these curves time loops back onto itself, which has exotic consequences.
Brown, André EX, Ch'ng, Quee-Lim, Currie, Michael, Grundy, Laura J, Hokanson, Jim, Javer, Avelino, Kerr, Rex, Lee, Chee Wai, Li, Chris, Li, Kezhi, Schafer, William R, Yemini, Eviatar   +11 more
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Quantum Indeterminacy, Freedom, and Responsibility [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2008
In the contemporary debate between determinism and indeterminism, quantum mechanics are used by libertarianists, both as a resource to escape the determinism imposed by classical physics, and as a tool to search for a ground to the possibility of free ...
Carlos Patarroyo
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Contingence, déterminisme et « just-so stories »

Tracés, 2013
A number of contrasting uses of contingency are discussed, with an emphasis on the relation of contingency with indeterminism and determinism. We find associations with indeterminism problematic.
Clint Ballinger
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The man in the high garden: An epicurean virtual history [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
Following the lead of heterogeneous and invariably brilliant thinkers as Thucydides, Arnold J. Toynbee, Winston Churchill, Carl Sagan, Philip K. Dick, and Niall Ferguson, I consider a virtual history - or an alternative Everettian branch of the universal
Ćirković Milan
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A remark on the role of indeterminism and non-locality in the violation of Bell's inequality

, 2013
Some years ago Aerts et al. presented a macroscopic model in which the amount of non-locality and indeterminism could be continuously varied, and used it to show that by increasing non-locality one increases, as expected, the degree of violation of Bell ...
de Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli
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Chance in a Created World: How to Avoid Common Misunderstandings about Divine Action [PDF]

, 2015
In the article ”Against Physicalism-plus-God: How Creation Accounts for Divine Action in the World’, I defined a framework which allows us to make some progress in our understanding of how God acts in the world.
Jaeger, Lydia
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Free Will: Real or Illusion - A Debate [PDF]

, 2020
Debate on free will with Christian List, Gregg Caruso, and Cory Clark.
Caruso, Gregg D., Clark, Cory J., List, Christian   +2 more
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Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails an Intrinsic Time Arrow. a Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy [PDF]

, 1999
Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction therefore arises between two statements of Hawking.
't Hooft, Avshalom C. Elitzur, Dolev, Elitzur, Elitzur, Elitzur, Elitzur, Elitzur, Finkelstein, Ghirardi, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Penrose, Penrose, Preskill, Price, Shahar Dolev, Unruh   +21 more
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On the Ontology of Composites in Abhidharma Buddhism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abhidharma Buddhism maintains that the only ultimately real (paramārtha) entities in the universe are dharmas, which are simples. What then is the ontological status of composites on this theory? One possibility is that Abhidharma Buddhists deny the reality of composites.
Monima Chadha, Shaun Nichols
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The Divine Action Project, 1988–2003 [PDF]

, 2004
This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley.
Wildman, Wesley J.
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