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Laws, Causation and Dynamics at Different Levels [PDF]
, 2011 I have two main aims. The first is general, and more philosophical (Section 2). The second is specific, and more closely related to physics (Sections 3 and 4).
Butterfield, Jeremy
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İRADE ÖZGÜRLÜGÜ SORUNUNUN ÇÖZÜMSÜZLÜGÜ ÜZERİNE
Felsefe Dünyası, 2008 E. Funda NESLİOGLU, "İRADE ÖZGÜRLÜGÜ SORUNUNUN ÇÖZÜMSÜZLÜGÜ ÜZERİNE"
Funda Neslioğlu
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Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience [PDF]
, 2019 At least since Aristotle’s famous 'sea-battle' passages in On Interpretation 9, some substantial minority of philosophers has been attracted to the doctrine of the open future--the doctrine that future contingent statements are not true. But, prima facie,
Belnap Nuel +51 more
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Grounding Physicalism and the Metaphysical Exclusion Problem
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 71-81, June 2025.ABSTRACT Ground physicalism is the view that higher‐level properties, such as phenomenal and normative properties, are fully grounded in the fundamental physical properties. Like other non‐identity physicalists, ground physicalists face the causal exclusion problem.
Will Moorfoot
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Jamesian Free Will, The Two-stage Model Of William James [PDF]
, 2010 Research into two-stage models of “free will” – first “free” random generation of alternative possibilities, followed by “willed” adequately determined decisions consistent with character, values, and desires – suggests that William James was in 1884 the
Doyle, Bob
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, 2012 Partial explanations are everywhere. That is, explanations citing causes that explain some but not all of an effect are ubiquitous across science, and these in turn rely on the notion of degree of explanation.
A. Garfinkel +29 more
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Tense and Indeterminateness [PDF]
Philosophy 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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Similarity accounts of counterfactuals: A reality check1
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 887-915, May 2025.Abstract To an unusual extent, philosophers agree that counterfactuals have truth conditions involving the most similar possible worlds where their antecedents are true, in the style of the celebrated and path‐breaking Stalnaker/Lewis accounts. Roughly, these accounts say that the counterfactual if A were the case, C would be the case is true if and ...
Alan Hájek
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Metafizyka w ekologii? Ekosystem jako Złożony System Adaptacyjny
Scientia et Fides, 2013 Metaphysics in ecology? Ecosystem as a Complex Adaptive SystemThe metaphysical exploration regarding the origin and evolution of life is also present in ecology, however, does not refer to individual organisms, but entire ecological systems, such as ...
Magdalena Czarnecka
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Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2023 W. V. Quine is commonly read as holding that there are no analytic truths and no a priori truths. I argue that this is a misreading. Quine’s view is that no sentence is determinately analytic or determinately a priori. I show that my reading is better supported by Quine’s arguments and general remarks about meaning and analyticity.
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