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The problem of free will is child's play
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 147-154, April 2026.Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
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Session 4: Evolutionary Indeterminism [PDF]
, 2002 Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24 2001 Session 4: Evolutionary ...
Bouchard, Frederic +3 more
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Radical Uncertainty and New Sector Emergence: An Action Theory of Co‐Creative Stakeholders
Strategic Change, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 177-194, March 2026.ABSTRACT For much of the past century, entrepreneurship scholars have sought to understand and assess the nature, role, and impact of uncertainty. While the sum total of this work has contributed valuable insights, radical uncertainty—characterized by dynamic conditions in which outcomes are unknowable at the time action must be taken—remains weakly ...
Parul Manocha +1 more
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, 2016 An account of determinism and indeterminism in physics, addressed to non-physicist readers, leading up to proposals for how to understand statements about the future and single-event probability, motivated by quantum ...
Sudbery, Anthony
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The problem of future contingents: scoping out a solution [PDF]
, 2020 Various philosophers have long since been attracted to the doctrine that future contingent propositions systematically fail to be true—what is sometimes called the doctrine of the open future.
Todd, Patrick
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Strategic Change, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 303-313, March 2026.ABSTRACT The relationship between entrepreneurship and uncertainty is ambivalent: while uncertainty creates entrepreneurial opportunities, it simultaneously poses a fundamental challenge. Despite extensive theorizing, conceptual ambiguity persists regarding the locus, origin, and behavioral implications of uncertainty in entrepreneurship.
Clemens Soehngen +2 more
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Relativity of a Free Will Concept Depending on Both Conscious Indeterminism and Unconscious Determinism [PDF]
, 2011 Free will is difficult to classify with respect to determinism or indeterminism, and its phenomenology in consciousness often shows both aspects. Initially, it is felt as unlimited and indeterminate will power, with the potentiality of multiple choices ...
Jansen, Franz Klaus
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Interlaced Strands of Change: Vernacular Pedagogies Weaving Indeterminism into Place-Based Education
Australian Journal of Environmental EducationAmid profoundly unstable and vulnerable times, conventional education systems continue to reflect the dominant ideology in modernity that has contributed to the current global polycrisis. This study explores how educators engage in vernacular pedagogical
Junko Kondo, Roger C. Baars
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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Evil, Freedom and Heaven [PDF]
, 2018 By far the most respected response by theists to the problem of evil is some version of the free will defense, which rests on the twin ideas that God could not create humans with free will without them committing evil acts, and that freedom is of such ...
Cushing, Simon
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