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What kind of free will did the Buddha teach? [PDF]
The modern version of the problem of free will is usually described as a collision between two beliefs: the belief that we are free to choose our actions and the belief that our actions are determined by prior necessary causes.
Federman, Asaf
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Descartes, René. Descartes. Estudio introductorio de Cirilo Flórez Miguel. Madrid: Gredos, 2011.
Gonzalo Serrano
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Descartes Foundationalism: An Answer to the Skeptics’ or A Way Out? [PDF]
The phenomenon of knowledge is a fundamental issue in epistemology as a main branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge related problems. Over time, epistemologists attempted to give us or provide clues as to what reality actually is, that is the ...
Bubu, Ncha Gabriel
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Threshold for monotone symmetric properties through a logarithmic Sobolev inequality
Threshold phenomena are investigated using a general approach, following Talagrand [Ann. Probab. 22 (1994) 1576--1587] and Friedgut and Kalai [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (1999) 1017--1054].
Rossignol, Raphaël
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Roboter als Modellsysteme für aktive Materie: Abkühlungsphänomene durch Haftreibung
Die Fortschritte in der Robotik in den letzten Jahrzehnten haben die Entwicklung von Geräten ermöglicht, die lebende Organismen nachahmen und häufig für bestimmte Tätigkeiten eingesetzt werden. Für solche selbstgetriebenen Agenten spielt die Haftreibung eine zentrale Rolle.
Alexander Antonov +3 more
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Did Ryle criticize Descartes after all? [PDF]
Many researchers, including contemporary ones, disagree on the question of whether Gilbert Ryle actually criticized the works of René Descartes in his book The Concept of Mind (1949).
S. A. Fedorov
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Posmodernisme dan Pendidikan di Indonesia (sebuah Refleksi Filosofis) [PDF]
Artikel ini merupakan kajian filsafati tentang pemikiran posmodernisme dan relevansiya bagi pelaksanaan pendidikan di Indonesia dewasa ini. Posmodernisme adalah paradigma berpikir dan sikap yang kritis terhadap pola pikir dan prinsip-prinsip modernisme ...
Septiwiharti, D. (Dwi)
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Newton’s insight that “the rays are not colored” anticipated a constructivist view of perception in which physical stimuli provide input but perceptual qualities arise from neural processing. Framed by Newton’s view, early sensory psychology and modern neuroscience converged on the conclusion that color is an internally generated percept, shaped by ...
Billy R. Wooten, Billy R. Hammond
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