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Popper, Rationality and the Possibility of Social Science

open access: yesTheoria, 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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What’s a chance event? Contrasting different senses of ‘chance’ with Aristotle’s idea of meaningful unusual accidents

open access: yesArchai: 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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Kantian Causality and Quantum Quarks: The Compatibility between Quantum Mechanics and Kant’s Phenomenal World

open access: yesTheoria, 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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Comment on ‘Quantum principle of relativity’

open access: yesNew 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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Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics: Are Real Numbers Really Real? [PDF]

open access: yesErkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2018
It is usual to identify initial conditions of classical dynamical systems with mathematical real numbers. However, almost all real numbers contain an infinite amount of information.
N. Gisin
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Tense and Indeterminateness [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2000
Is tense real and objective? Can the fact that something is past, say, be wholly objective, consistent with modern physics? I believe that it can. But some hold that for tense to be real, then a certain ontological doctrine must also hold. There must be a fact of the matter as to what really, truly, exists at each time.
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Reply to the Comment on ‘Quantum principle of relativity’

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2023
We discuss critical remarks raised by Horodecki (2023 arXiv: 2301.07802 [quant-ph]) toward our work on the connection between superluminal extension of special relativity and fundamental aspects of quantum theory.
Andrzej Dragan, Artur Ekert
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Traduire l’incertitude

open access: yesMiędzy 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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Otwarty teizm – teologiczny ‘wymysł’ czy sensowna propozycja?

open access: yesScientia 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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Psychology in an Indeterminate World

open access: yesPerspectives on Psychological Science, 2021
By sharing their world, humans and other animals sustain each other. Their world gets determined over time as generations of animals act in it. Current approaches to psychological science, by contrast, start from the assumption that the world is already determined before an animal’s activity.
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