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Causation and the Law: Preemption, Lawful Sufficiency, and Causal Sufficiency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This article briefly describes the normative/nonnormative distinction, and how one might invoke this distinction to locate a nonnormative dimension of actual causation. After briefly introducing Richard Wright\u27s concept of a necessary element in a set
Fumerton, Richard, Kress, Ken
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Self-Colocation: A Colocation Puzzle for Endurantists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The recent literature on the nature of persistence features a handful of imaginative cases in which an object seems to colocate with itself. So far, discussion of these cases has focused primarily on how they defy the standard endurantist approaches to ...
Mooney, Justin
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Mary does not learn anything new: Applying Kim's critique of mental causation to the knowledge argument and the problem of consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Within the discourse surrounding mind-body interaction, mental causation is intimately associated with non-reductive physicalism. However, such a theory holds two opposing views: that all causal properties and relations can ...
Khayat, Adam
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The microstructure view of the brain-consciousness relation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
How can consciousness, how can the mind be causally efficacious in a world which seems—in some sense—to be thoroughly governed by physical causality?
Schmitz, Michael
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Nature, society and social change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Environmental destruction has become an everyday reality in the contemporary world. Major concerns are being put forward regarding the dangers to the environment in general and to human societies in particular, with strong focus currently being put on ...
Briguglio, Michael
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Inverse Problems of Recovering Parameters in the Lin–Reissner–Tsien Equation

open access: yesИзвестия Иркутского государственного университета: Серия "Математика"
The article is devoted to the study of the solvability of new nonlinear inverse problems of finding an unknown constant together with solving the linearized Lin– Reissner–Tsien equation.
A.I. Kozhanov, L. A. Telesheva
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Inverse Problems of Recovering Lower-Order Coefficients from Boundary Integral Data

open access: yesAxioms
We study inverse problems of identification of lower-order coefficients in a second-order parabolic equation. The coefficients are sought in the form of a finite series segment with unknown coefficients, depending on time.
Sergey Pyatkov, Oleg Soldatov
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Causation comes in degrees. [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2022
Demirtas H.
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