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THE INDETERMINATION OF MEANINGS [PDF]

Mind, 1915
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Popper, Rationality and the Possibility of Social Science

Theoria, 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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Psychology in an Indeterminate World

Perspectives 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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Kantian Causality and Quantum Quarks: The Compatibility between Quantum Mechanics and Kant’s Phenomenal World

Theoria, 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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The Concept of Revolution in the Sciences: Michael Polanyi's Differences With Thomas Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions

Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was a blockbuster publication that problematized notions about the origins and nature of scientific revolutions. What became Kuhn's famous rubrics of “normal science” and “paradigms” were similar to concepts of “tacit knowledge” and scientific “frameworks” or “dogmas” in Michael ...
Mary Jo Nye
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How Not to Argue for the Indeterminism of Evolution: A Look at Two Recent Attempts to Settle the Issue [PDF]

, 2002
I examine recent debates in the philosophy of biology over the determinism or indeterminism of the evolutionary process, focusing on two papers in particular: Glymour 2001 and Stamos 2001.
Millstein, Roberta
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Deterministic Theories

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 134-152, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson, J. B. Manchak, James Owen Weatherall   +2 more
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Complexity and the Global Security Governance of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Regulatory Deadlock and Practices of Relational Transcendence

World Affairs, Volume 189, Issue 3, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT One of the most prominent contemporary issues in the arms control domain is the regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS). Today, there exist global governance procedures for AWS due to intense legal and ethical concerns, especially about those equipped with Artificial Intelligence capabilities, herein referred to as intelligent AWS (IAWS).
Dimitris Tsintsaris
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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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The Conflation of "Chance" in Evolution [PDF]

, 2011
Discussions of “chance” and related concepts (such as “stochasticity,” “randomness,” “indeterminism,” etc.) are found throughout philosophical work on evolutionary theory.
Pence, Charles H.
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