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Manipulation Cases in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Part 3: Bypassing Responses

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper—the last of the series—I discuss the second of the two main types of soft‐line responses to manipulation cases, which I refer to as bypassing views. These views hold that a large part of the reason that Victim lacks responsibility is because the action issues from attitudes acquired in a way that bypassed Victim's capacities for ...
Gabriel De Marco
wiley   +1 more source

Actualizing Unique Type and Token Values as a Solution to the Problem of Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Concerning the problem of evil, I suggest that God's goodness and omnipotence causes God to want to actualize many different values and things, not solely angels in heaven, but also type unique values like independence, self-formation, creativity, and ...
Atle Ottesen Søvik
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated Framework of Optimization Technique and Information Theory Measures for Modeling Neutrosophic Variables [PDF]

open access: yesNeutrosophic Sets and Systems, 2017
Uncertainty and indeterminacy are two major problems in data analysis these days. Neutrosophy is a generalization of the fuzzy theory. Neutrosophic system is based on indeterminism and falsity of concepts in addition to truth degrees.
Mona Gamal Gafar, Ibrahim El-Henawy
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Two intuitions about free will—Some afterthoughts

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract In 2014, Christian List and I published a paper that delineated our view regarding what it takes for an agent to act freely. We suggested that this requires the action to be endorsed by the agent and caused by this endorsement and yet not be necessitated.
Wlodek Rabinowicz
wiley   +1 more source

The closed future

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Many philosophers take for granted that there is a strong pre‐theoretical intuition that the future is open and that it is worth trying to make sense of that intuition in theoretical terms. In this paper, I give a characterisation of the ordinary intuition in terms of three elements: our sense of agency, the difference in normativity between ...
Giuliano Torrengo
wiley   +1 more source

Ludwik Silberstein o przyczynowości w przyrodzie

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2011
In this paper we present the opinions of Ludwik Silberstein (1872-1948) on the question of causality in the scientific investigations. The discussion is based on the examples taken from physics and astronomy. Silberstein is convinced that the principle of
Piotr Flin, Agnieszka Stępień
doaj  

Future contingents, openness and the possibility of omniscience: Defending an argument against relativism and supervaluationism

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 91, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract In a recent paper, Patrick Todd and Brian Rabern argued that—contra both Thomason's supervaluationism and MacFarlane's relativism—an “open future” view is incompatible with the principle they call “Retro‐closure”, according to which today's rain implies that yesterday it was true that it would rain a day later.
Patrick Todd
wiley   +1 more source

Earlier Buddhist Theories of Free Will: Compatibilism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A critical review of the first wave of publications on Buddhism and free will between the 1960s and ...
Repetti, Rick
core   +1 more source

Rejoinder: The 2005 Neyman Lecture: Dynamic Indeterminism in Science

open access: yes, 2008
Rejoinder to ``The 2005 Neyman Lecture: Dynamic Indeterminism in Science'' [arXiv:0808.0620]Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-STS246REJ the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical ...
Brillinger, David R.
core   +1 more source

Authentication of Coffea arabica: Comparative Multispectral Discrimination by NIR and UV–Vis Spectroscopy Aided by Artificial Neural Networks and Data Fusion

open access: yesFood Frontiers, Volume 6, Issue 2, Page 763-774, March 2025.
This study evaluated the feasibility of a multispectral approach to perform rapid discrimination of shelf‐ready coffee beans of the most significant Arabica groups. Spectral analysis was conducted by a benchtop near‐infrared (NIR), UV‐Vis, and a handheld Vis‐NIR spectrometer.
Vanessa Moll   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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