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Navigating uncertainty in life cycle assessment‐based approaches to biodiversity footprinting
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 5, Page 1387-1404, May 2026.Abstract The use of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods is rapidly expanding as a means of estimating the biodiversity impacts of organisations across complex value chains. However, these methods have limitations and substantial uncertainties, which are rarely communicated in the results of LCAs.
Talitha Bromwich +15 more
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Physical aspects of oracles for randomness, and Hadamard's conjecture [PDF]
, 2014 We analyze the physical aspects and origins of currently proposed oracles for (absolute) randomness.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures.
E Garber +12 more
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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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Did the Universe Have a Chance? [PDF]
, 2018 In a world awash in statistical patterns, should we conclude that the universe’s evolution or genesis is somehow subject to chance? I draw attention to alternatives that must be acknowledged if we are to have an adequate assessment of what chance the ...
McCoy, C. D.
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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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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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, 2012 Quantum gravity--the marriage of quantum physics with general relativity--is bound to contain deep and important lessons for the nature of physical time.
Barbour +34 more
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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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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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Determinism and Causation Examples [PDF]
, 2004 In studying causation, many examples are presented assuming that determinism holds in the world of the example such as the notoriously difficult to resolve preemptive and preventative situations.
Burock, Marc
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