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Elements of a Theory of Nonphysical Agents in the Physical World

Organon F, 2019
This paper shows that there is a quantum-physical and evolution-biological perspective for (libertarian) free will, and that the so-called scientific arguments against it are in reality metaphysical arguments and insufficient. The paper also develops the
Uwe Meixner
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Defending The Open Future: Replies to MacFarlane, Green, Wasserman, and Bigg & Miller

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 249-277, June 2025.
Abstract In this symposium piece, I reply to the diverse and wide‐ranging set of objections to my book (The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False) set forth by MacFarlane, Green, Wasserman, and Bigg & Miller.
Patrick Todd
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Interlaced Strands of Change: Vernacular Pedagogies Weaving Indeterminism into Place-Based Education

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
Amid 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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Spacetime singularities and a novel formulation of indeterminism [PDF]

, 2021
Spacetime singularities in general relativity are commonly thought to be problematic, in that they signal a breakdown in the theory. We address the question of how to interpret this breakdown, restricting our attention to classical considerations (though
Namjoo, Mohammad Hossein, Azhar, Feraz
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Freedom of Will as a Prerequisite for Criminal Liability: Humans and Artificial Intelligence in a Czech Criminal Law Perspective

Ius Novum
The paper analyses the form and place of human will in the foundations of criminal liability. It explains the necessity of will for the traditional criminal liability of natural persons and presents a comparison with the possible criminal liability of ...
Yaroslav Fenyk
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Must indeterminate rational actions be random? [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
One powerful objection to libertarian accounts of free will is that, if actions involve any element of indeterminism, those actions are random. Such actions are thought to be random because the only factors that can aid in explanation are reasons, and ...
Anton Audrey L.
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Rationality and indeterminate probabilities

Synthese, 2011
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Alan Hájek, Michael Smithson
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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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Problem of Free Will in Determinism and Indeterminism

Philosophies
This paper re-examines the problem of free will in light of both deterministic and indeterministic assumptions about the structure of the world.
Jovan M. Tadić
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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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