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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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“A Matter of Chance”: An Epistemological Interpretation of Chance in Radical Behaviorism [PDF]

Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
The concept of chance cited by B. F. Skinner was not subject to a detailed examination to elucidate changes in his explanatory system. This article explains and discusses the meanings of chance identified in the author’s texts.
Christian Silva dos Reis, Carolina Laurenti   +1 more
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Defining a Relativity-Proof Notion of the Present via Spatio-temporal Indeterminism

Foundations of physics, 2019
In this paper we describe a novel approach to defining an ontologically fundamental notion of co-presentness that does not go against the tenets of relativity theory.
T. Müller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

Philosophy 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

Ludwik Silberstein o przyczynowości w przyrodzie

Zagadnienia 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
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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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Two intuitions about free will—Some afterthoughts

Theoria, 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

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

Religions, 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
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The closed future

Theoria, 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

Rationality and indeterminate probabilities

Synthese, 2011
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Alan Hájek, Michael Smithson
openaire   +3 more sources